Font settings ignored on Linux

[adrian5]

It seems Halloy cannot find fonts on my system. The font being used is presumably some default/fallback and I get no error message. I'm not sure if you had a chance to test that yet.

I would imagine the libraries you're using are capable of detecting fonts on my system.

[andymandias]

I had this same issue and in my case at least (Fedora aarch64) it seems the issue is related to Flatpak. When building from source I'm able to load fonts.

[adrian5]

Thanks for the feedback Andrew. In my case it was the binary release here from GitHub.

I'm now back on Hexchat which was my go-to client in the past. Until recently, I had accessed the major IRC networks via Matrix client, but the Matrix<->IRC bridges were removed, at least for LiberaChat.

[casperstorm]

@tarkah did you see this issue as well?

[casperstorm]

@adrian5 mind testing master branch? We just updated to master branch of iced which had a bunch of changes.
Including a few changes to font loading.

[adrian5]

@casperstorm Just tried a master (debug) build and fonts look normal now, as well as responding to config.yaml changes.

One exception is my NerdFont, which is accepted (being listed in the startup log) but doesn't seem to be used in the window. I can't tell which font I'm looking at instead, but the glyphs are different. I don't know if you want to investigate this further. Otherwise the core of this issue can be considered resolved I reckon.

[englut]

I'm seeing this issue with the snap installed version. Can confirm that fonts are loading properly when running cargo run --release on the latest main branch.