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You apparently need to be a member of the disk group to mount a filesystem as an otherwise unprivileged user.

sudo usermod -aG disk $USER

And log out and back in again.

Edit: If you experience weird missing dependency issues with fuse3 or gumbo-parser, you need to rebuild httpdirfs. rebuild-detector, which supplies checkrebuild and a pacman hook which also runs it during upgrades, can somewhat alleviate the problem of keeping AUR packages up to date, since they're not usually bumped when they need a rebuild.

@qifei9, it may only work when logged into a desktop environment. I'm not entirely sure. Editing the script may work, but it still requires elevation or disk membership in that case.

I can't reproduce it with either of those two fonts, though I am using Plasma, not GNOME, and I had a Wayfire desktop before, but it started crashing on login, so I can't figure out what's up with that.

The antialiasing settings may be related to font hinting control, since I remember fonts back in the day having their own rules for not antialiasing certain point sizes, and it was up to the renderer to decide whether to observe those rules.

@kode54 . I have just tried on another computer and sadly it presents the same issue. I have messed around with the fontconfig stuff also to no avail - deleting all fontconfig and messing with hinting etc. Seems like not all fonts have this issue like I originally thought, a few I can say have it are Calibri and Cambria. Times New Roman and Arial seem fine.

meet a problem:

Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/loop0 is not a mountable filesystem.

have already run

sudo usermod -aG disk $USER

Stumbled on the error

httpdirfs: error while loading shared libraries: libgumbo.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solved this after installing gumbo-parser and rebuilding httpdirfs like this (using paru here):

$ paru gumbo-parser
$ paru httpdirfs --rebuild=yes

Seems like there's an optional build-time dependency for httpdirfs on gumbo-parser and paru doesn't rebuild the package on reinstallation of httpdirfs without the --rebuild=yes option.

@Fazzi: I cannot reproduce your issue. Please check your fontconfig directories for references to "antialias". The only settings I can think of that would apply to this is either hinting (I tried the hinting settings and could not reproduce with either "none" or "slight"), or the antialias exclusion range, which Plasma provides an option to configure, but as far as I know, does not enable by default.

Thank you for updating the package!! However I'm having an issue with all of the fonts, They all look fine until about 15pt where they suddenly lose anti-aliasing or something. You can see this for yourself if you install font-manager and look at any of the microsoft fonts in Waterfall view. Here is an example: https://imgur.com/a/cozO2Yt

Is anyone else experiencing this issue or is it just me? It seems to only be fonts from this package. ttf-ms-fonts works fine and so do the rest of my system fonts.

The symlinking errors are expected for this package, as the download of the files is done in prepare(), so makepkg tries to link these before they even exist in the folder. This shouldn't be a problem.

even after rebuilding httpdirfs, i still get the symlink issue, anyone know why? im using yay, to build it if that matters.

I remember looking into this problem. The actual root of the problem lies with udisks timing out (does it hit the cache in the HTTP filesystem? Can't remember). Anyway, that error isn't being cleaned up, so on your second try you have multiple duplicate mounts happening (take a look at the output of mount after getting the error).

Once I reached the end of my timebox for it, I just opened up PKGBUILD and did this:

% git diff
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 3608c4e..04bc7c1 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ prepare() {
udisksctl loop-delete -b "$_testLoopDev" --no-user-interaction
rm test.mount

+    _unprivilegedMountAllowed=false
if [ $_unprivilegedMountAllowed ]; then
echo "allowed"
echo "- Downloading fonts directly"

Adding the _unprivilegedMountAllowed=false line dbypasses the bug, but the install will take longer (details here explained in PKGBUILD.

Oh yeah, now I see that the root of the problem is that _loopDev=$(udisksctl loop-setup -r ... line. I found some other folks complaining about it a similar issue, but I'm not sure it's related, since the complaints were old. Here's one: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/828

EDIT: Made the diff output less annoying to read.