Hey,
I am new to Bluefin. Thanks for this project. I have an encoding issue. Please checkout this SC:
The screenshot shows the dialog, when I click on “extensions”. But also other app’s texts and labels look like this.
Please can you help me?
thanks
We need more context. What is the software that is shown in the screenshot?
Did you set the language of the system to something else than English?
No just english (united states). Since the OS-installation process.
❯ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: de
X11 Layout: de
X11 Model: pc105
I’ve seen fc-cache -fv fix out the squares in flatpaks before.
I’ve seen two other people have this but can’t replicate it. Perhaps we need a font cache cleaning thing in the cronjobs.
Thanks for the response. I tried the command, the command succeeds, but the squares are still there 
It doesn’t affect every app, but a lot of them. It seems to affect apps that use the native gui, but that’s just an assumption. In any case, it is impossible to work.
rm -rf ~/.var/app/*/cache/fontconfig/*
then
flatpak repair
Then close any affected flatpak apps and reopen.
That’s what fixed it for me.
Thanks, but no luck. I even rebooted afterwards. The squares are there. I have not changed anything font-wise in this os. I only changed the Ptyxis font, but Ptyxis works.
I have this fonts:
~
❯ ls /usr/share/fonts/
abattis-cantarell-fonts google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts liberation-mono rit-rachana-fonts
abattis-cantarell-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-mono-cjk-vf-fonts madan-fonts sil-nuosu-fonts
adobe-source-code-pro-fonts google-noto-serif-cjk-vf-fonts 'MesloLGS NF' sil-padauk-fonts
cascadia-code-fonts google-noto-vf monaspace stix-fonts
commit-mono ibm-plex-mono-fonts mozilla-fira truetype
gdouros-symbola intelmono nerd-fonts ubuntu
google-droid-sans-fonts inter noto-cjk ubuntu-family
google-droid-sans-mono-fonts jetbrains-mono-fonts opendyslexic urw-base35
google-go-mono-fonts jetbrains-mono-nl-fonts open-sans vazirmatn-vf-fonts
google-noto jomolhari-fonts paktype-naskh-basic-fonts
google-noto-color-emoji-fonts julietaula-montserrat-fonts rit-meera-new-fonts
~
❯ ls /usr/share/X11/fonts/
~
❯
The folder /usr/share/X11/fonts/ is empty.
This will move Cantarell fonts to user space. Sometimes it fixes flatpaks.
cp -r /usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell-fonts ~/.local/share/fonts
Thanks for all your hints. I have also tried this, but without success. Do you have any other ideas?
FileZilla looks like this:
Find the appid of filezilla.
flatpak list
Put the AppID in this command.
flatpak run --command=fc-cache "AppID" -f -v
Restart app.
Wow! That fixed it for FileZilla!
@Plyply But how to fix this for all apps?
Are you on KDE? There was a bug where KDE still used deprecated ~/.fonts
Don’t know if it’s been fixed. I’m on gnome.
If so, check if you have a ~/.local/share/fonts directory.
Rename it to fontsOLD
Edit, Oh you’re on bluefin.
flatpak list --app --columns=application,runtime|grep org.gnome.Platform|awk -F '\t' '{print "flatpak run --command=fc-cache " $1 " -f -v /usr/share/fonts/abattis-cantarell-fonts"}'|xargs -I % echo "%"|sh
MAYBE will work.
Modified to reset flatpak apps font cache.
flatpak list --app --columns=application,runtime|grep org.gnome.Platform|awk -F '\t' '{print "flatpak run --command=fc-cache " $1 " -f -v"}'|xargs -I % echo "%"|sh
YMMV
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