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vladimiry
ElectronMail v4.12.0 snap package font error
Hello,
I have a font problem with the snap package of electron-mail under Manjaro Linux. The file open dialog, that I want to use, when I want to import a ics calendar (ProtonCalendar); (or when I want to add an attachment to an email), the dialog shows only Rectangles [] instead of a font. Which fonts does it needs?
System info:
- OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
- Kernel: 5.11.10-1-MANJARO
- Uptime: 17 mins
- Packages: 1788 (pacman), 26 (flatpak), 13 (snap)
- Shell: bash 5.1.0
- Resolution: 3840x2160
- DE: GNOME 3.38.4
- WM: Mutter
- WM Theme: Matcha-sea
- Theme: Matcha-sea [GTK2/3]
- Icons: Papirus-Maia [GTK2/3]
- Terminal: gnome-terminal
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 3.600GHz
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- Memory: 2841MiB / 32083MiB
Kind regards traplens
Which fonts does it needs?
Maybe try starting the app via console like snap run electron-mail so some info gets printed to the output (like missed fonts warnings).
I have run this command in Gnome-Terminal. However, it does not print out any error message.
I found a similar bug and deleted the font cache too, unfortunately that doesn't help either: like here
Hope some experienced Snap users will step in and assist since I'm not one of them.
What I've noticed is that gnome-platform and data-dir folders of the app package are empty which I guess according to https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/66f01bba33523544813418332a5643f8b09f5421/packages/app-builder-lib/templates/snap/snapcraft.yaml should not be empty. Just a guess though that it's a matter of Snap package misconfiguration.
I tested Mate-Terminal with following output:
snap run electron-mail (node:5708) DeprecationWarning: file property is deprecated and will be removed in v5. (Use electron-mail --trace-deprecation ...to show where the warning was created) Gtk-Message: 21:59:15.313: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module" Gtk-Message: 22:01:24.015: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. ^[[AGtk-Message: 22:02:03.691: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
Can you also run ls /snap/electron-mail/current/data-dir/themes/ ? Just curious. In my case it's empty but my understanding is that themes should be linked from gtk-common-themes defined as provider.
Install the noto-fonts doesn't help. The error only occurs in the almost the same dialog window, when you insert following command in the console: zenity --file-selection
And yes the themes folder is empty.
In my case it's empty but my understanding is that themes should be linked from gtk-common-themes defined as provider.
And yes the themes folder is empty.
If I run snap run --shell electron-mail and then ls $SNAP/data-dir/themes, it prints the theme names. So gtk-common-themes seems to be well connected.
$SNAP/data-dir/themes
Adwaita Communitheme-light Materia-dark
Adwaita-dark Greybird Materia-dark-compact
Ambiance Greybird-dark Materia-light
Ambiant-MATE HighContrast Materia-light-compact
Ambiant-MATE-Dark Matcha-aliz Radiance
Arc Matcha-azul Radiant-MATE
Arc-Dark Matcha-dark-aliz Yaru
Arc-Darker Matcha-dark-azul Yaru-dark
Breeze Matcha-dark-sea Yaru-light
Breeze-Dark Matcha-sea elementary
Communitheme Materia
Communitheme-dark Materia-compact
[sth@manjaro ~]$ sudo pacman -S gtk-common-themes
[sudo] Password for sth:
Error: Target not found: gtk-common-themes
[sth@manjaro ~]$ sudo snap install gtk-common-themes
snap "gtk-common-themes" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh'
I had the same issue & I can confirm its resolved when I installed the AUR binary package instead of snap. Thanks @vladimiry for your efforts.
