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issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - xero - 04-08-2014

hey,
so i'm an arch linux user. i have a number of bitmap fonts installed. i can see them when i run
Code:
fc-list
and they appear in font selection menus in applications like lxappearance. if i set my terminal emulator (urxvt) to use a bitmap font (e.g. gohuFont) it works perfectly. but when i try and use them in gtk/qt apps they crash. for instance, if i set the interface font to gohu then try and run sublime text 2 i get this error:

Code:
sublime_text: cairo-scaled-font.c:459: _cairo_scaled_glyph_page_destroy: Assertion `!scaled_font->cache_frozen' failed.

i'm a relativity new archer, and didn't have any of these issues on debian. i'm really not sure what to try next. thanx in advance for suggestions!

RE: issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - rwzy - 08-08-2014

How do you set the 'interface' font exactly? Do you mean with lxappearance (~/.gtkrc-2.0)?

RE: issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - xero - 08-08-2014

yes, i use lxappearance

RE: issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - rwzy - 08-08-2014

Sorry, don't know why… You reset cache (fc-cache -fv)? Does your browser use gtk/qt too (does it also crash)?

RE: issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - xero - 08-08-2014

i'm not exactly sure how chromium renders fonts. but, i just tried it and i *can* use them in chromium without it crashing, weird. but wow do they look awful anti-aliased.

RE: issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - rwzy - 08-08-2014

I don't think bitmap fonts are supposed to be anti-aliased are they? Good luck with finding the issue, how do you get by without your text editor? Have you gone through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts? What are some examples of other programs that crash, is it just everything excluding chromium?

RE: issues with bitmap fonts crashing apps - earsplit - 11-08-2014

This is a known bug:

[url]http://www.google.com/search?q="+`!scaled_font->cache_frozen'+failed."[/url]