Re: Seeking status reports on unusual operating systems

["Sijmen J. Mulder" <ik%sjmulder.nl@localhost>]

Atticus wrote:
> Sijmen, the lack of shortcuts doesn't affect me using i3, but the shortcuts
> are
> definitely being created correctly in
> /usr/pkg/share/{applications,xsessions}.
> This is and has always, afaik, been expected behaviour. The base system
> doesn't know to look for shortcuts from pkgsrc unless you tell it to do so.

This makes sense, however I recently tried some GUI programs on Linux
and here's a sample of issues:

 - mail/sylpheed fails to load some things, including a font (it
   appears), then segfaults:

   Gtk-Message: 22:42:54.634: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
   Gtk-Message: 22:42:54.634: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
   (sylpheed:2055614): Pango-CRITICAL **: 22:42:54.804: pango_font_describe: assertion 'font != NULL' failed
   (sylpheed:2055614): Pango-CRITICAL **: 22:42:54.804: pango_font_description_get_variant: assertion 'desc != NULL' failed
   (sylpheed:2055614): Pango-CRITICAL **: 22:42:54.804: pango_font_get_hb_font: assertion 'PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed
   Segmentation fault

 - emulators/sameboy sometimes has audio, sometimes it doesn't.
   Sometimes it prints:

   ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1032:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

 - emulators/mgba, with mgba-qt, doesn't render text:

   https://sjmulder.nl/2022/mgba-qt-linux.png

Fonts and audio appear to be recurring issues. In the past I've had GTK
theming issues too.

Perhaps it's user error, and I need to do some font configuration and
document it (if it isn't already), but it would be even better if it
can be made to work out of the box. If I can't get it to work I'll open
some PRs.

Sijmen