Screenshot

Fonts sometimes don't change back after using "Conceal text" option

Bug #1592363 reported by Jiri Grönroos
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This bug affects 12 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Screenshot
In Progress
Medium
Danielle Foré
Screenshot juno-beta1

Bug Description

I'm on a fresh installation of Loki Beta. This is a default installation for which I set Finnish as a system-wide language after installation using "Language & Region" plug.

After installing language support and rebooting, I decided to try screenshot app. I set "Conceal text" option on and took a screenshot. After saving the screenshot I closed screenshot app but the whole UI is still gibberish text even after many reboots. Turning "Conceal text" option on/off in screenshot app doesn't do anything to UI.

See the screenshot to see how this one option turned elementary OS installation for me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary 0.4
Package: elementary-desktop 1.412+467~daily~ubuntu0.4.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Tue Jun 14 13:42:54 2016
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Related branches

lp://staging/~elementary-apps/screenshot-tool/check-for-scribbles
elementary Apps team: Pending requested
Diff: 21 lines (+9/-3)
1 file modified
src/ScreenshotWindow.vala (+9/-3)
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Jiri Grönroos (jiri-gronroos) wrote :
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Jung-Kyu Park (bagjunggyu) wrote :

You may use this for time being.

 - Workaround -

Interface)
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name "Open Sans 9"

Terminal & Scratch)
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name "Roboto Mono 10"

Mail)
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name "Open Sans 10"

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Jung-Kyu Park (bagjunggyu) wrote :

It happened to me
https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenshot-tool/+bug/1588889
but, nothing happen to me now.

Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
affects: elementaryos → screenshot-tool
Leonardo Lemos (leonardolemos)
Changed in screenshot-tool:
status: New → Confirmed
Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)
summary: - Using "Conceal text" option in Screenshot app makes desktop unusable in
- Finnish
+ Fonts sometimes don't change back after using "Conceal text" option
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Jung-Kyu Park (bagjunggyu) wrote :

another workaround for fonts back suggested.

$ gsettings read org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name
$ gsettings read org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
$ gsettings read org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name

Fabio Zaramella (fabiozaramella)
Changed in screenshot-tool:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Jiri Grönroos (jiri-gronroos) wrote :

This is still a problem on an up-to-date Loki beta2 installation. Consider targetting this for rc1 - https://launchpad.net/elementaryos/+milestone/loki-rc1 - as this bug makes the whole elementary installation unusable. Hence importance should be major.

I would just remove "Conceal text" option from screenshot-tool if there's no fix for this before Loki release.

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Joel Lino (joel-7) wrote :

Any solution for this problem? It just happened to me, all the text of the system is kuzzy

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Joel Lino (joel-7) wrote :

My desktop right now

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Joel Lino (joel-7) wrote :

One solution would be to apply a "reset to default" to type letters through Elementary Tweak, which luckily I had already installed.

But I think it could also serve to apply a "Restore Default Settings" from "About" in the system configuration.

Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
Changed in screenshot-tool:
milestone: none → juno-beta1
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Fabio Zaramella (fabiozaramella) wrote :

Is this bug still present? I tried with japanese, italian, russian, suomi, and chinese languages set system-wide and i couldn't reproduce it.

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Jung-Kyu Park (bagjunggyu) wrote :

@fabiozaramella
yes, it still conceal only English, not Korean hangul for me.

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

Something I noticed is that this code doesn't seem to check what the previous font was. Perhaps we need a failsafe to check that we're not just setting the scribble don't again and if we are to reset the key to default. Changing to default font is less lossy than getting stuck on scribbles imo

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

I attached a branch here that checks if we're setting the font to the scribble font twice and resets if that's the case. Can someone who can reproduce the issue see if this branch fixes it for them?

Changed in screenshot-tool:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Daniel Fore (danrabbit)
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Jung-Kyu Park (bagjunggyu) wrote :

It seems above branch fixed this issue, since I can not reproduce of it.
But, stiil has an issue with concealing Hangul for me, I would file another report of it as seperated with it.

Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in screenshot-tool:
milestone: 0.1.2 → juno-beta1
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