Unity Editor has no visible text

[Pendrokar]

Unity Editor launches, but after the license window and project creation window comes the main window, which has no text in inner windows with the exceotio of the title bar.

[Pendrokar]

This issue is from a missing font. Unity uses the Tahoma font. It can be installed in the following ways:

• Using winetricks - When in the terminal, write: $ env WINEPREFIX= winetricks tahoma
• When using PlayOnLinux - In PlayOnLinux install the 'tahoma' component for your Unity installation.

Or

Force Unity to use a different font, by adding a registry key(wine regedit) to the wineprefix Unity is located on, see FontSubstitutes in UsefulRegistryKeys, Tahoma is even given as an example.

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This might actually be bug in the Windows version of Unity bug as a user has come up with the same issue on Windows. Meaning that Unity Technologies should either include the font in their installer or use a different font(IMO unlikely).
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/724427/when-i-launch-uinty-there-is-no-text-please-help.html
This is how it looks like on Windows 7(if it is the same bug):

[jurf]

Nope, the Tahoma font doesn't cause the problem in Windows according to the comment on the question.

[Pendrokar]

That is not the user that asked the question though.

[jurf]

Oh yeah. Although the questioner has larger system fonts, that might be the problem.

[Pendrokar]

Again you overlooked, it is the wrong use of the English expression "The only difference that I can see" when Xtro actually meant "The only difference that I can think of", since I don't see where Xtro sees the font being too large. Xtro is guessing.

[edit] I noticed it is also possible to make Wine override a missing font, by adding a key to the registry. (Fonts -> Replacements)
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

[jurf]

Nope, not this time. Notice the menu bar, the text there is too big. Windowses always had little fonts, but that one is definitely larger.

The thing with the registry is good to know by the way.

[Pendrokar]

User "Feetsalot" of Unity Answers fixed the problem by re-installing fonts. That doesn't help us. Unity 4.6 still does not include the font.

[Chen-Han]

Hello, I encountered the same bug for unity 5 where text is not showing up. The screen shot above is a perfect reflection of what I have. However, I would like to get a more detailed answer as running
winetricks tahoma does not work

Can you elaborate on "In PlayOnLinux install the 'tahoma' component for your Unity installation." ?

[Pendrokar]

@Chen-Han depends if you are actually using PlayOnLinux. Seems not.

By "winetricks tahoma does not work" do you mean that winetricks is not found, or the installation of "tahoma" did not help. If it is the latter than you might have Unity installed on a different prefix.

There was an error in my description(fixed) right after WINEPREFIX=(here you have to have the path to the Unity prefix folder)

[jurf]

Just want to point out that Unity uses Tahoma as a fallback font. The real one is in core-fonts.

[Chen-Han]

@Pendrokar I am using PlayOnLinux
I used default wine prefix I assume.
The installation of tahoma fonts didn't work out. I also moved some font files to this directory:

:~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts$ ls
Arial.ttf  arial.ttf  tahomabd.ttf  Tahoma.ttf  tahoma.ttf

I wonder how you can choose to install the 'tahoma' component in:
When using PlayOnLinux - In PlayOnLinux install the 'tahoma' component for your Unity installation.

Sorry I am very new to wine and playOnLinux, if you have any lead to how to solve it I really appreciate.

[jurf]

Try lookking at this: http://wiki.playonlinux.com/index.php/The_Configuration_Window#.284.29_-_Install_Components_tab