GNU bug report logs - #36632
ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #23 received at 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:38:33 +0200

Hi Martin,

> So i got a chance to dig into this a bit. chromium needs a ttf font and
> there are no fonts installed yet, so defaintly not a stale cache issue.
> Chrome is crashing here
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/ui/gfx/platform_font_skia.cc#97
> Its using fontconfig i think. I have no idea how to get chromium to read
> fonts from a custom path.

Can we arrange for a default font to be returned by fontconfig?  Perhaps
the fix is not needed in Chromium but in fontconfig or our profile hooks?

-- 
Ricardo
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