Fonts are missing in VSCodium dialogs on Fedora
abitrolly opened this issue · comments
This is what is shown on Fedora 33.
The solution is to use extensions and newer base.
https://snapcraft.io/blog/the-expandables-snapcraft-extensions-and-the-secret-code
Can confirm. I have the same issue (Pop!_OS 20.10, VSCodium 1.51.1 via snap):
@abitrolly I see you've already been active here and said that this didn't fix the problem for you - but it did for me (at least for now), so in case anybody wants to give this a try:
rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig
rm -rf ~/snap/codium/common/.cache
fc-cache -r
(taken from here)
@bkis it might help, but the proper solution in on the snap level.
@abitrolly It's only a workaround, yes. But having the complete contents of the "Open Folder" dialog changed to □□□ □□□□□ □□ etc. (incl. my directories and files names) really raised the need for a quick solution ;)
No workaround in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapped-app-not-loading-fonts-on-fedora-and-arch/12484/102 helped.
rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig
rm -rf ~/snap/codium/common/.cache
fc-cache -r
Doesn't work for my F33.
neither does it work for me on ubuntu 20.10 VSCodium version 1.53.2
I'm in the same case of @abitrolly on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS and VS Codium 1.55.2.
At this time I have no solution. I clean fontconfig cache and remove and install again VS Codium. I also tried to change Ubuntu dialog box default change with default one (Ubuntu) but the VS Codium dialog boxes displaid only squares...
Maybe this helps some of the people still (or again) looking for a fix:
After a system update I had this same issue all over again. I closed Codium and cleared the cache (see code in the comments above), ran Codium again - no success. After a few tries I kept Codium running and cleared the cache again, voilà! I have no idea why it worked and whether it was just a coincidence, but keeping the app open while clearing the cache seems to be worth a try.
This package is just too outdated. At the very least it could use a newer base and https://snapcraft.io/docs/gnome-3-28-extension
https://github.com/snapcrafters/codium/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml
Maybe this helps some of the people still (or again) looking for a fix: After a system update I had this same issue all over again. I closed Codium and cleared the cache (see code in the comments above), ran Codium again - no success. After a few tries I kept Codium running and cleared the cache again, voilà! I have no idea why it worked and whether it was just a coincidence, but keeping the app open while clearing the cache seems to be worth a try.
This is the only thing that helped. New install here on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, never used Codium, installed via snap and tried to open a help dialog for the keyboard shortcuts, bug above came up. I cleared the cache while having it open and when I tried opening the same dialog again, it worked but I had to wait a few seconds before the window appeared.
Thanks anyway for giving this advice.
1.67.1 on Fedora 36. The problem is finally fixed for me. So I am closing this as it was originally reported for Fedora.
