Fonts are missing
From Archlinux wiki:
Steam makes heavy usage of the Arial font. To make fonts look better, you may wish to install the ttf-microsoft-arial or ttf-ms-fonts package from the AUR.
Do you have them both installed?
ttf-microsoft-arial added some fonts, thanks. But still, most of them are missing. Here's how it looks like currently:
lib32-sdl_ttf
sdl_ttf
ttf-dejavu
ttf-freefont
ttf-liberation
ttf-microsoft-tahoma
ttf-ms-fonts
Are all the fonts I have installed and it is working for me (on archlinux as well). Are you missing any of them?
Just installed/reinstalled all the fonts, you mentioned. Did not help.
I'm not sure if this is only applicable when running Steam in Wine or not, but when I had troubles with no fonts I ran Steam with the flag "-no-dwrite" and that solved the problem.
If you don't know how to start Steam with a flag, just open a terminal and type in "steam -no-dwrite" or, if you're using AwesomeWM, just press mod4 + r and then type in "steam -no-dwrite".
Hope it helped!
@LumenTeun As I pointed out in the issue description (↑), linux client ignores "-no-dwrite" argument.
Oh, I'm sorry, I missed that. Guess I've got nothing then. Good luck.
This should have improved with the 1/23 release so that Steam will use whatever fonts you have. Do you still see a problem?
I've just tried starting it again. Before starting it downloaded and installed an update, but nothing changed. Here's how it looks like right after the start completed (note, no fonts on the login screen too, just guessed that it wants password):
Could this be because I'm not using any DE/DM? I'm just using xmonad WM, which is started from ~/.xinitrc.
Are you running fontconfig? If you fc-list in a shell does it show fonts?
If it does I don't know why steam wouldn't find them, I've never seen anything like this.
Fontconfig is installed:
folone.github.com [master●] % pacman -Q fontconfig ~/workspace/folone.github.com
fontconfig 2.10.2-1
fc-list outputs a bunch of stuff:
folone.github.com [master●] % fc-list | wc -l ~/workspace/folone.github.com
1054
What does 'fc-match Arial' display? If you run a font viewer like fontmatrix can you find the font that matched and see if it has glyphs?
~ % fc-match Arial ~
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
I'll find a font viewer, just a moment.
Does a font viewer show that font properly?
It has some glyphs. At least it has all the glyphs for the letters and some symbols.
I'm out of ideas at the moment, sorry. We'll have to keep investigating.
Thanks for looking into this anyway. I'll post the screenshot of the font viewer tomorrow-ish: my internet connection is pretty bad right now.
Here's the screenshot:
That looks fine, I don't know why Steam wouldn't work. We'll keep looking.
Hey, @gdrewb-valve,
It works now. I've downloaded the latest update, it did not fix it. I completely removed the client, and reinstalled it. And it started working.
You might want to grep for something like if(installedCount > 1) enableFonts() :)
Archievement unlocked: Reinstall.
You can now use fonts!
I had the same problem,
installing ttf-microsoft-arial and ttf-ms-fonts solved it.
(ArchLinux too)
The problem might be that the first time I was installing from AUR: steam was not in official pacman repos at that time yet.
Nothing extracted yet.
Hello,
I'll duplicate my report here, as I did not get any help from forums. I've recently installed Steam for linux. Here's how it looks like for me:
![Steam]()
I tried installing all the fonts, mentioned here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MS_Fonts
I also know, it used to be a known problem when running Steam under wine, but linux client ignores "-no-dwrite" argument.
Running Steam under Arch Linux, on thinkpad x220:
Any help appreciated.