Dialog Box not displaying text properly for "strict" and "devmode" snaps

[Melvin-Abraham]

• Version: v22.8.0
• Electron Version: v9.0.3
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current
• Target: Snap (on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS)

I am facing issues in terms of text rendering inside Dialogs when launching a strictly confined snap. The text to be displayed are plain ASCII characters but in strict/devmode snaps, I see that it renders the text as boxes instead of corresponding characters. This issue only occurs in strict/devmode snaps but not in classic snaps.

Also, the following warning is thrown in the console whenever this happens:

Gtk-Message: 11:34:28.960: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

Screenshots

Strict/Devmode Snap

Classic Snap

[hadisfr]

It seems to be related to fontconfig's bug (See https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapped-app-not-loading-fonts-on-fedora-and-arch/12484/18).

Try the workaround here: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapped-app-not-loading-fonts-on-fedora-and-arch/12484/60

sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

[Melvin-Abraham]

@hadisfr Thanks a lot, that works like a charm... 👍
EDIT: This works temporarily as the issue shows up every time I launch the application, so I have to run this quite often.

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Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

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[topotech]

Why is this marked as closed?