Created attachment 545496 [details] CLI run output All present binaries are affected, self-compiled versions are ok.
Upstream issue: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/4240
Hey, when i first looked up open issues in upstream i found several and decided to ignore the problem. Ok there is a lot of "error" output, but does it do any harm? If you can, please explain the problem in more detail. Do your fonts look different than you expect them to? Now the linked upstream issue mentions a workaround, launching tdesktop with FONTCONFIG_FILES set to /etc/fonts/. `FONTCONFIG_FILE=/etc/fonts/ telegram-desktop` For me that got rid of all the errors, some warning remained. As far as i can tell it looks the same, but without the errors it starts up much faster. The ebuild already ships a wrapper script to mess with the env and arguments, so it is easy to add FONTCONFIG_FILE as well. But i would like to understand what is going on there. Is this a fix or just a crude workaround? I will send a PR for a 1.4.0-r1 once i found an answer ... or maybe not, if it is a hack.
It is a provlem because: 1.) telegram does not start from the menu entry 2.) it takes up to 2 minutes (literally) to start telegram from the CLI due to fontconfig errors
Please check out the "solution" in the PR i just opened. I am really not so sure about the possible side-effects of that, but works for me ;). Please tell me how it performs on your systems, and let us see how the review on github goes.
Just tried arabic, cyrillic and a few asia fonts. While my system could not render some of them, the current fix does not seem to make that any worse. "FONTCONFIG_FILE=/etc/fonts/ telegram-desktop" breaks arabic, just like mentioned in the upstream bug where that workaround was suggested as well. As far as my testing goes that can probably be released.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=056380a0e76e08e1bd2e5973219ff46a95b83ea5 commit 056380a0e76e08e1bd2e5973219ff46a95b83ea5 Author: Henning Schild <henning@hennsch.de> AuthorDate: 2018-10-03 17:43:28 +0000 Commit: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-10-04 20:50:30 +0000 net-im/telegram-desktop-bin: work around fontconfig issues This commit makes telegram-desktop-bin bring its own fontconfig file for the old version of fontconfig it has built in. It also allows to fall back to the "old way" by removing the file from /etc/. Signed-off-by: Henning Schild <henning@hennsch.de> Signed-off-by: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/664872 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10055 net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/files/fonts.conf | 60 +++++++++++++++++ .../files/telegram-desktop-bin-r2 | 15 +++++ .../telegram-desktop-bin-1.4.0-r1.ebuild | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 150 insertions(+)
