SDDM fonts (text) not visible

[nekromoff]

Fonts or texts are not visible at all. When I type password, this will be similarly invisible.

No texts visible for session type (plasma, Gnome ...) or keyboard description:

Selected password, but no visible characters (but they are written correctly as I can log in):

[nekromoff]

When testing with greeter, same thing is happening. This happens for all themes (breeze, maui, default)

[nekromoff]

Also see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45307518/sddm-fonts-not-loading/46228578#46228578

[anatolyborodin]

Interesting though, if you click the place with the mouse, where the "show password" eye icon should be, the password text is visible (or the grey "Password" is shown). But if you click it again, the text disappears.

The eye icon is invisible during the log in, but visible on the lock screen.

The text cursor is always visible and moving.

PS The letters on the visual keyboard are invisible too.

[nekromoff]

Yes, once I click the "eye", then the password is displayed correctly in plain text.

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[diamond2016]

I have similar issue. Sddm does not show labels username even the hostname (welcome to...). I have tried to reinstall fonts but no change.

[anatolyborodin]

I'm afraid, the problem can be in some related QT or KDE library: I've tried to downgrade sddm and sddm-theme-breeze to the versions from zesty (0.13.0-1ubuntu5 and 4:5.9.4-0ubuntu1 correspondently), but the problem is still there.

KDE version 4:5.10.5-0ubuntu1, QT version 5.9.1+dfsg-5ubuntu2.

PS The user icons are also invisible.

[diamond2016]

KDE Plasma 5.10.5 KF5 5.37.0 QT 5.9.1 kernel 4.12.12 (linux from scratch)

[pierre-labastie]

Does any of you have an English locale? For me, my locale is fr_FR.UTF-8. If I run
sddm-greeter --test-mode
I have the same issue as described above (everything works except there is no text). If I run
LANG=C sddm-greeter --test-mode or
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sddm-greeter --test-mode or
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 sddm-greeter --test-mode
the text is here (in English of course). So there is a problem with translations...
Two things that may be of importance:

• I have Qt in /opt/qt5, while sddm is in /usr (could explain that translation files are not found)
• I have tried to change TranslationDirectory to absolute (/usr/share/sddm/translations) in the metadata.desktop of elarun and to run that theme. No success.

[nekromoff]

Yes! Mine is:

LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Your solution with switching to English works, thanks!

[nekromoff]

And suddenly lock screen is showing everything (same issue as with SDDM) in order as well! Great.

[diamond2016]

I have IT_it.UTF-8 and the same configuration of pierre-labastie. I've tried to set LANG and /etc/locale.conf to en_US.UTF-8 instead, and now text is visibile. Good!.
Now I have to investigate how solving the problem, some soft links to add? Thanks for help

[pierre-labastie]

@diamond2016: No idea... It could be an issue with Qt5 installation, but LXQt uses it, and translations are OK for LXQt.

[diamond2016]

Solved with sddm-0.16.0

[frankbe]

I had same issue today on a complete new arch linux installation with sddm 0.18 and lxqt 0.13.
It was a archlinux/archlinux vagrant box image, available on app.vagrantup.com.

The solution was to install the package "ttf-dejavu" and reboot.

[maxim-green]

Thanks, frankbe. You made my day;)

[gtim]

Thank you @frankbe! I had the same issue with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 on a fresh Arch install with sddm 0.19.0-6 and lxqt 0.17.0-1. Installing ttf-dejavu resolved it.

[frankbe]

Glad it helped you guys