Chrome version 154.0.8037.57-1 updated its statically linked libfontconfig, and now its cache is stomping on the user-level font cache.

To fix this, press Ctrl + Alt + t to open a terminal, and run

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig

And then reboot.

Note that opening Chrome (or a Chromium-based program) will break it again. I edited my ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome-beta.desktop to do this:

Exec=env XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/user/.cache/chromecache/ /usr/bin/google-chrome-beta %U

More info:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565052667

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/work_items/538

  • Peacepath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I think KDE team maintains it, but I must admit I have no proof of such… it is just pure faith into them…

    Yet should I have no choice between chromium and konqueror, I would take the second without even trying the first.

    And I really loved konqueror before I became a gnome user… You can run konsole in konqueror, isn’t that cool?