System font aplied only for last tab

[vantu5z]

Font is good only in last tab.

Guake version 3.8.0
OS: Arch Linux

[LunaGNUisance]

I'm also facing the same issue on Arch Linux with Guake version 3.8.0. I'm facing another issue where the tabs bar isn't shown when I only have one tab open. When I start Guake, it loads for about 20 seconds, seems to fail, then GNOME freezes/goes black, core dumps, and restarts itself. Then these issues arise.

The python-gobject dependency was upgraded at the same time, so this might be related. For the moment, I've downgraded Guake to 3.7 and I no longer have these issues, but it still causes core dumps on startup. I downgraded python-gobject at the same time, thinking this was the culprit, but couldn't start Guake after this, so left it at 3.40.1-2.

EDIT: It only core dumps when I start Guake from the .desktop file; when I start it from a terminal, there are no issues.

[cmacht]

@vantu5z I had the same issue and could work around it in Guake Preferences: In "Appearance" > "General" I unticked the box "Use the system fixed width font". Alternatively, I could set my preferred font there. I concur though, it's still a bug I encountered as well in 3.8.0.

@LunaGNUisance You mention three different issues. The first one is already described here, the second one (no bar) is actually a new feature #924 and the third one (crashing) would be more helpful in a separate bug report.

[LunaGNUisance]

@cmacht I suppose you are right. I didn't want to spam the issue tracker, so I grouped the issues together (as they're all related to 3.8.0), but I suppose it would be harder to track them in the long-term this way. I'll open a separate issue for the core dump issue (which is reproducible on two of my Arch GNOME machines) when I do some further testing.

I initially thought that #924 was a bug because it looked strange to me for the bottom of the terminal to be cut off like that and not have the new tab button present, but I understand wanting to reclaim more vertical space.

I tried unchecking "Use the System fixed width font", but this doesn't work. Even the newest tab's font rendering is strange now.

[Davidy22]

Hiding the tab bar when there is one tab is a toggleable option that defaults on, you can actually restore the old behavior if you preferred it in the settings.

For the core dump, can you try moving the file ~/.config/guake/session.json somewhere else and try to start guake again? There's an issue with loading many terminals quickly that segfaults vte that we've run into some amount before which this might be related to.

For the people experiencing font issues, what's the name of the font you're using, and what font-related settings do you have? Unable to observe the issue myself, need help with reproduction

[vantu5z]

If in Guake config set "Use system mono font" then it used ony for last tab.
To reproduce:

1. Uncheck "Use system font" in Guake config
2. In Guake config set some font differ from your system font
3. Set "Use system font" back
4. Try to create new tabs and look to previous tabs.

[Davidy22]

Repoduction instruction still doesn't work for me, what's the actual name of your system default font?

[cmacht]

To jump in, I have set my system default monospace font to Source Code Pro Regular. When I set the font in guake preferences to something else (let's say Arial) and uncheck "Use system font" it's fine, and it uses Arial as expected.

I open three tabs in guake, all with Arial. When I then check "Use system font", all the tabs correctly turn to Source Code Pro immediately. However, if I now open a new tab, only the new tab has Source Code Pro, the three old ones immediately revert to Arial, which should not happen.

And thank you, @Davidy22 for being so active! Your engagement is really giving me a good feeling about Guake, even though everyone else on the team seems to have other plans for their weekend than fixing bugs. 😉 ❤️

[Davidy22]

Oh, was able to reproduce now. Also notice that affected tabs retain the font through restarts. Quick sanity check with 3.7 did not produce the bug, so a change in 3.8 caused this. Think I can figure this out.

Would have been nice if the maintainer handoff had been a full one instead of this halfway one where my changes only get merged when the one other person who was given review privileges approves them after two weeks and I have to play tech support telephone with any guake resource that isn't the github repo because I don't have direct access. Safer this way though maybe, in case the new maintainer was just going to delete the repo or something.

[LunaGNUisance]

As a workaround for now, unchecking "Use the system fixed width font" and setting the font to whatever your Monosapce text system font is, and then checking "Use the system fixed width font" will return the default behavior. I'm just noting this, for others that did not understand what the issue was at first.

I opened a separate issue for the core dump upon launch issue: #1950