Firefox, X11 fonts and 2gis

[dmn]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:00:03 +0700
Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:

> What's your desktop environment? It's Mate in my case, run from
> startx.
> 


I do not use any DE. Just x11-wm/openbox window manager, which is run
from the ~/.xinitrc file by startx.


> I just created a test user account without assigning it to any login
> class. Then I logged in as this test user, ran "setenv LANG
> ru_RU.UTF-8 ; startx", then started Firefox - and you know what! The
> map is without text.
> 
> So it is not the login class to blame, but some locale-related stuff.
> But I can't live in C locale.
> 
> 


There are many things to try to narrow down the list of possible
suspects.

- use different shell (e.g. bash, sh)
- use another DE (xfce, gnome, kde)
- do not use DE at all, start some window manager (twm, fluxbox, etc.)
- set en_US.UTF-8 instead of ru_RU.UTF-8
- try different settings in the firefox 'Fonts and Colors' dialog, e.g.
Fonts for->Cyrillic and 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead
of your selections above'
- turn on/off web fonts in about:config (gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled)
- if you install software from the ports collection, inspect the
options set for print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/fontconfig ports.
- ... ...

All of the above should be done under fresh new user account, of course.


Regards,
Dmitry.