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please dont mark this package as out of date just because it is listed as "2024", i can assure u this is always the latest version of the gamemaker beta, i have the rss feed of the ide connected to my rss reader, i know when its out of date. opera still just releases the beta ide under "2024", this is not in my control and it is getting annoying having my package get falsely marked as out of date because its supposedly "over 2 years old" over a weird version scheme done by opera.

please dont mark this package as out of date just because it is listed as "2024", i can assure u this is always the latest version of the gamemaker beta, i have the rss feed of the ide connected to my rss reader, i know when its out of date. opera still just releases the beta ide under "2024", this is not in my control and it is getting annoying having my package get falsely marked as out of date because its supposedly "over 2 years old" over a weird version scheme done by opera.

Hi! I've recently noticed a problem with font rendering in the "Open file" dialog. I'm using Gnome with Wayland.

The "open file" dialog does not show any meaningful characters, only empty spaces or rectangles.

This issue seems to affect GameMaker specifically; other GTK apps render Adwaita Sans correctly.

Here are the logs that seem to be related:

(GameMaker:133674): Pango-WARNING **: 12:23:34.822: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Adwaita Sans Bold 11'

(GameMaker:133674): Pango-WARNING **: 12:23:34.822: font_face status is: <unknown error status>

(GameMaker:133674): Pango-WARNING **: 12:23:34.822: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(GameMaker:133674): Pango-WARNING **: 12:23:34.823: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Adwaita Sans Bold 11'

(GameMaker:133674): Pango-WARNING **: 12:23:34.823: font_face status is: <unknown error status>

(GameMaker:133674): Pango-WARNING **: 12:23:34.823: scaled_font status is: out of memory

Adwaita is the default Gnome font family nowadays.

A workaround is switching to another font family, for example

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name "DejaVu Sans 11"
  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name "DejaVu Sans Mono 11"

However, it changes the font for every app.

gamemaker-beta-bin version 2024.1400.2.941-1

GNOME Shell 49.2

Is there a fix for font rendering in GameMaker or a workaround to change the fonts specifically for GameMaker?

awesome. thanks for the quick response

downgraded the package for now, ill update it whenever a newer version comes out

Found a workaround, which I've also posted on the github issue. Open /opt/GameMaker-Beta/x86_64/plugins.json and remove each Localisation line except English.

hm, I'd just marked this as out-of-date, but I've updated locally (then checked back and was again shocked at how fast you resolved the flag!) and the latest beta goes into a boot loop complaining about failing to load plugins. May be best to roll back the update until that issue is fixed.

The freetype downgrade is no longer needed. The previous Beta used the system libraries rather than the bundled ones; this has been fixed.

@danielah05 I didn't knew about the FreeType issue, downgrading the freetype2 package using the 2.13.3-3 version from https://archive.archlinux.org fixed the issue. Thank you so much! vlw