On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 13:38:35 +0000 Mark Raynsford via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello! > > I have two systems here that are running the same version of Arch. > They are using different window managers; system A is running > awesomewm, whilst system B is running fvwm. > > Both have the same fonts installed, and both have very similar outputs > for "env": > > System A: > > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/184135848/bus > DISPLAY=:0 > EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim > FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 > HOME=/home/rm > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_COLLATE=C > LOGNAME=rm > MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm > MOTD_SHOWN=pam > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/rm/bin:/opt/bin > PWD=/home/rm > SHELL=/bin/bash > SHLVL=2 > SSH_AGENT_PID=806 > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXNocNEG/agent.782 > SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=673 > TASKRC=/home/rm/git/com.github/io7m/dotfiles.taskwarrior/taskrc > TERM=xterm-256color > USER=rm > VTE_VERSION=6602 > WINDOWID=12195960 > WINDOWPATH=1 > XAUTHORITY=/home/rm/.Xauthority > XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm/var/cache > XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm/etc > XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm/local > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/184135848 > XDG_SEAT=seat0 > XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user > XDG_SESSION_ID=1 > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty > XDG_VTNR=1 > _=/usr/bin/env > > System B: > > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/128542918/bus > EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim > FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 > HOME=/home/rm-work > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_COLLATE=C > LOGNAME=rm-work > MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm-work > MOTD_SHOWN=pam > PATH=/home/rm-work/bin:/home/rm-work/.pyenv/shims:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin > PWD=/home/rm-work > PYENV_ROOT=/home/rm-work/.pyenv > PYENV_VIRTUALENV_INIT=1 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SHLVL=0 > TERM=xterm-256color > USER=rm-work > XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm-work/var/cache > XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm-work/etc > XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm-work/local > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/128542918 > XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user > XDG_SESSION_ID=16 > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty > _=/usr/sbin/env > > With both systems, I can open a text file containing the following > string: > > ひらがな > > ... in both a browser (Firefox, Chromium), in mousepad, and in vim > in an xfce4-terminal instance. System A will consistently render the > string using the correct glyphs. System B will consistently render the > string as a set of missing glyphs. > > Given that all of my software, fonts, and locale settings are > apparently the same... What other variables could cause font rendering > to consistently fail on one system and not the other? If you use gnome terminal instead of xfce4-terminal and can reproduce the same symptoms, then the command: $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name will tell you what font is in use on each machine. Maybe that will help?
