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Definitions window shows boxes instead of text

#1

The font in the defintions hover window is botched on Ubuntu 17.04 using Sublime Text build 3126.

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#2

I would check and make sure your system returns an appropriate font for sans-serif, which is what the definitions popup uses, as long as your color scheme hasn’t overridden it.

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#3

I have selected one of the default colorschemes (i.e. Solarized Dark).

$ fc-match sans-serif
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

DejaVu Sans is returned by my system as the default sans-serif font and it works in other programs. Are there any other ways I could find out what’s happening here?

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#4

The problem is solved by installing the Arial font through the ttf-mscorefonts package.

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#5

You could also try dev build 3131. We did a bunch of work on font selection on Linux, so that may help.

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