Firefox, X11 fonts and 2gis

Victor Sudakov vas at sibptus.ru
Mon Dec 2 13:09:43 UTC 2019


Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 11:07:30 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > On my desktop, I'm using mate and Firefox from the official FreeBSD
> > packages (currently mate-1.22.1 and 68.0.2,1 are installed).
> > 
> > 2gis is a popular Russian navigator and database of companies. They have
> > recently changed their web interface, and after the change I don't see
> > any street names (in fact, no text at all) on their map any more. On
> > Windows the map looks OK.
> > 
> > Could you please visit https://2gis.ru/tomsk and report if you actually
> > do see town names, street names, house numbers etc, or just a dumb map?
> 
> Are you missing some fonts? The "webfonts" package comes to mind...

The package webfonts-0.30_14 is installed, but I know no way to tell if
the X-server is actually using any fonts from there. It all happens
automagically now, there is no xorg.conf, and I don't know how to print
the current FontPath or font list.

> 
> I see the map, the cats (bottom left), and the text in the page
> and on Firefox's titlebar: "Karta Tomska: ulizy, doma i organisazii
> goroda - 2GIS - Mozzarella Firefox". :-)
> 
> However, there are no text elements inside the map on the right,
> even though there is text on the web page on the left...

Oh! I think you have reproduced the problem! Thank you!
Your map on the right looks like this, right?  http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/2gis.png

> 
> This is on FreeBSD 12.0-p7 with Firefox 68.0.

What do you think can be the cause?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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