vscodium: Missing fonts in snap package

All system dialogs in version 1.46.0 from snap package are rendered with no font glyphs. Folder selection, about, etc.

[main 2020-06-17T19:55:01.882Z] menubarService#updateMenubar 1
[main 2020-06-17T19:55:06.916Z] menubar#runActionInRenderer { type: 'commandId', commandId: 'workbench.action.showAboutDialog' }
[225991:0617/225506.922960:INFO:CONSOLE(1669)] "%cTRACE color: #888 CommandService#executeCommand workbench.action.showAboutDialog", source: file:///var/lib/snapd/snap/codium/42/usr/share/codium/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js (1669)
Gtk-Message: 22:55:06.940: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

This is Fedora 32 with GNOME on Wayland,

Please confirm that this problem is VSCodium-specific

This bug doesn’t happen if I use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. It only happens in VSCodium.

Please confirm that the issue/resolution isn’t already documented

I checked the Docs page and my issue is not mentioned there.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

snap install codium
codium
Help -> About

About this issue

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State: open
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 18 (2 by maintainers)

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The following commands should fix the issue:

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig 
rm -rf ~/snap/codium/common/.cache
fc-cache -r

daiyam on Jan 31, 2022

From the issue mentioned by alexanderadam in Fonts in native components are not loaded in Snap #663 // I tried clearing the font cache (rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig; rm -rf ~/snap/superproductivity/common/.cache/fontconfig/; fc-cache -r -v) since this reminded me on the same issue of other electron apps (see this, this or this) and it helped.

I’m sure this is this systematic font issue of the current Snap version (see this thread) but I guess this would also be solvable via non native dialogues if that’s an alternative to you. //

Clearing the font cache worked for me !!

hollisticated-horse on Apr 6, 2021

Hey, I’ve just encountered the same issue. Snap 1.73.1.22314 on PopOS

I found this thread and used this from @daiyam

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig 
rm -rf ~/snap/codium/common/.cache
fc-cache -r

And it worked. But after a while it happened again… The possibility is that it happened, because I’ve cleaned also my $HOME temp folder, so maybe because of that. I cannot reproduce, but I will have an eye if it will come back.

Interesting for me is what @constantlam wrote:

Removing this variable truetype font file solved the dialog box problem. It appears that the font cache with a variable font conflicts with VS Codium.

But I have so many fonts that I cannot even check if it’s true. And I need them, so it will not work for me.

eshate on Nov 29, 2022

This error is somehow related to electron apps integration. The same occours in slack and MS Teams.

g7fernandes on May 4, 2022

For the snap on Fedora 35 it didn’t help. @freeman-h what OS do you use?

abitrolly on Mar 14, 2022