Chrome version 154.0.8037.57-1 updated its statically linked libfontconfig, and now its cache is stomping on the user-level font cache.

To fix this, press Ctrl + Alt + t to open a terminal, and run

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig

And then reboot.

Note that opening Chrome (or a Chromium-based program) will break it again. I edited my ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome-beta.desktop to do this:

Exec=env XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/user/.cache/chromecache/ /usr/bin/google-chrome-beta %U

More info:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565052667

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/work_items/538

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    Installing Firefox does not fix the Chrome/Chromium issue, because KDE would crash on login regardless. I already use Firefox as my main browser since version 1.5 or so (I know, I’m ancient and old). But recently had to install Chromium because Firefox does not support something I “need”.