Solved Some texts are not shown in KDE

[D-FENS]

Hi,

Very recently I noticed that some texts are not shown in KDE (it's just blank in their places).
This happens, for example:

• in system settings (I see only icons but no texts whatsoever. However, the Window titlebar text is displayed just fine.)
• in the search field of the Start menu, when I type text the characters are not shown, just blanks (the Start menu entries are fine)
• in the quick launch box (Alt-F2) - the characters are not shown, just blanks.

The following package versions are installed:

plasma5-plasma-5.14.5_1
qt5-5.12.0_1
xorg-7.7_3

The font-related section from xorg.conf:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Any ideas why this might be happening?
I believe it should have broken some time around my upgrade from 12.0-RELEASE to 12.0-RELEASE-p2 and full package upgrade on February 2-nd, 2019.

 

[SirDice]

Try to find out which font is used for the 'missing' text. You can use x11-fonts/xfontsel to look at the the font itself. It may be corrupted or missing for some reason.

 

[abishai]

echo 'export QML_DISABLE_DISTANCEFIELD=1' > ~/.xprofile

 

[D-FENS]

echo 'export QML_DISABLE_DISTANCEFIELD=1' > ~/.xprofile

WOW! This fixed it! Thank you so much.
It's a pitty that the developers decided instead of falling back to the default rendering when distancefield is not available, to render blanks.