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yourself

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Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 120

[SOLVED] KDE flags showing up as rectangles, how to debug

Hello all!

I've recently noticed that the KDE flags (eg. flags as shown in Keyboard Layout Settings) are shown as rectangles: https://ibb.co/txWsR9F

Whatsmore, if I try to add new layouts, I get this: https://ibb.co/Zg4fMxC

This is also apparent if I go to Region & Language, and select Modify for Time: https://ibb.co/QbNj2wN

My configuration is:
KDE Plasma: 6.2.2
KDE Frameworks: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel: 6.11.5-arch1-1
Platform: X11

Unfortunately, I haven't noticed the exact time this started to occur (I don't constantly change these settings) but my laptop next to my desktop, fully updated as well and more or less with the same configuration is showing the flags normally.

The problem is I don't know where to start to debug this thing. Any ideas?

Last edited by yourself (2024-10-24 07:38:09)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,875

Re: [SOLVED] KDE flags showing up as rectangles, how to debug

Install an emoji font. the "canonical" intended for and by KDE font for the UI is the noto-fonts family and the flags will be part of noto-fonts-emoji

FWIW worksforme™

yourself

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Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 120

Re: [SOLVED] KDE flags showing up as rectangles, how to debug

Hello V1del,

Thanks for your suggestion, your hinting that this is font related made me look in the right direction and I found the issue!!

Although it was not the fonts themselves (I have all noto-fonts installed), the culprit was my enabling of /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf globally:

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf

So, all I had to do was

# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# rm 70-no-bitmaps.conf

And it worked like a charm, I have my flags back!

I did this initially because Calibri started rendering really awful in Chrome and I thought that I could fix it by disabling embedded bitmaps (which did not help), so I installed Carlito and am happy since.

Best,