System.InvalidOperationException: Could not create glyphTypeface

[shi-gg]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

What happened?

I ran into the following error when trying to start SnapX:

System.InvalidOperationException: Could not create glyphTypeface. Font family: $Default (key: ). Style: Normal. Weight: Normal. Stretch: Normal

What did you expect?

I expected it not to error and continue.

Version

0.2.1 Dev

Relevant log output

~/Downloads/SnapX-Avalonia-Release-0.2.1-Linux-X64 
❯ ./snapx-ui
Initializing Avalonia
[16:27:38 INF] SnapX starting.
[16:27:38 INF] Version: 0.2.0
[16:27:38 INF] Build: Release
[16:27:38 INF] Data folder: ~/.local/share/SnapX
[16:27:38 INF] Config folder: ~/.config/SnapX
[16:27:38 INF] Cache folder: ~/.cache/SnapX
[16:27:38 INF] Operating system: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease) (X64)
[16:27:38 INF] Session Type: wayland
[16:27:38 INF] Desktop Environment: GNOME
[16:27:38 INF] Platform: Unix 6.16.0.0
[16:27:38 INF] .NET: .NET 9.0.5
[16:27:38 INF] CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400 (12)
[16:27:38 INF] Total Memory: 64123 MiB
[16:27:38 INF] Used Memory: 7517 MiB
[16:27:38 INF] Running as elevated process: False
[16:27:38 INF] Flags: DisableOCR
[16:27:38 INF] DB: SQLite 3.49.1
[16:27:38 INF] DB Path: Data Source=/home/luna/.local/share/SnapX/SnapX.db;Mode=ReadWriteCreate;Cache=Shared;Foreign Keys=True;Pooling=True
[16:27:38 INF] Application (Version: 0.2.0.0) started. Took ownership from previous dead instance (same version, PID: 14765)
[16:27:38 INF] GPU: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation DG2 [Arc A770] (rev 08)

[16:27:38 INF] Driver Version: Intel 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.1.1
[16:27:38 INF] Monitor: DP-3, Coordinates: (0, 0)
[16:27:38 INF] Internal Startup time: 111 ms
Unhandled exception. System.InvalidOperationException: Could not create glyphTypeface. Font family: $Default (key: ). Style: Normal. Weight: Normal. Stretch: Normal
   at Avalonia.Media.Typeface.get_GlyphTypeface() + 0x2a9
   at Avalonia.Rendering.Composition.Compositor.get_DiagnosticTextRenderer() + 0xb2
   at Avalonia.Rendering.Composition.Compositor.CreateCompositionTarget(Func`1) + 0x2e
   at Avalonia.Rendering.Composition.CompositingRenderer..ctor(IRenderRoot, Compositor, Func`1) + 0xb3
   at Avalonia.Controls.TopLevel..ctor(ITopLevelImpl, IAvaloniaDependencyResolver) + 0x230
   at Avalonia.Controls.WindowBase..ctor(IWindowBaseImpl, IAvaloniaDependencyResolver) + 0x2e
   at Avalonia.Controls.WindowBase..ctor(IWindowBaseImpl) + 0x58
   at Avalonia.Controls.Window..ctor(IWindowImpl) + 0x60
   at FluentAvalonia.UI.Windowing.AppWindow..ctor() + 0x40
   at SnapX.Avalonia.Views.MainWindow..ctor(MainViewModel vm) + 0x21
   at SnapX.Avalonia.App.OnFrameworkInitializationCompleted() + 0x1b86
   at Avalonia.ClassicDesktopStyleApplicationLifetimeExtensions.StartWithClassicDesktopLifetime(AppBuilder, String[], Action`1) + 0x34
   at Program.<Main>$(String[] args) + 0x29
zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped)  ./snapx-ui

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[BrycensRanch]

Hi, @luna-devv ! Thank you for raising an issue. Do you have the font "Noto Sans" installed globally?

[ok-coder1]

https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans

[shi-gg]

I did not — I just ran the following:

sudo dnf install -y google-noto-sans-fonts
sudo fc-cache -f -v

I am still getting the same error.

EDIT: I've tried installing "Noto Sans" from fonts.google manually to ~/.local/share/fonts as seen bellow, I am still getting the same error.

[BrycensRanch]

I did not — I just ran the following:

sudo dnf install -y google-noto-sans-fonts
sudo fc-cache -f -v
I am still getting the same error.

EDIT: I've tried installing "Noto Sans" from fonts.google manually to ~/.local/share/fonts as seen bellow, I am still getting the same error.

Alright, I'm working on a fix now. What's weird is that the Inter font should be included. As a sanity check, install the rsms-inter-fonts package (Inter has a fallback on Noto Sans)

[BrycensRanch]

Let me know if you try it and it doesn't work for you. 🤔

[shi-gg]

Yup, installing rsms-inter-fonts did it! Thanks! As a sanity check, is the window supposed to look like this?

[BrycensRanch]

Yup, installing rsms-inter-fonts did it! Thanks! As a sanity check, is the window supposed to look like this?

Yes, it has no fallback when it has no HistoryItems listed. The sidebar is very poor and it will be getting redesigned with Controls from FluentAvaloniaUI