SebastJava
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2 years ago I confirm it crashed on first try. I had to do a VM reset. Then i updated my system (mintUpdate). I tried again and there was no crash on 2nd and subsequent tests. On first try, i saw the font thumbnails getting generated one-by-one and then i quickly closed the window before getting to see all those fonts. Then it crashed. The shortcuts for Cinnamon reset or logout did not work, so i did a VM reset. On 2nd and subsequent tests, the fonts were already all displayed, instantly. There was no crash anymore. I guess there is a font cache somewhere (where?). I'd be curious to see if it still crashes when the font cache is missing. Or after having downloaded tons of new fonts...
Or maybe it got fixed with these four latest system updates from today (2022-07-18). I don't know.
On VM and all up-to-date: VM-inxi.txt
Harry-W-Haines-III
NintendoManiac64
clefebvre
(tested in a live session of both Cinnamon and Xfce as well as a fully-updated local installation as of 2022-07-15, but this only occurred on Cinnamon and not on Xfce)
Describe the bug When you open "Fonts" from the "Mint" menu (whatever Mint's equivalent of the Windows Start Menu is called), if you try to close the resulting window very soon after it appeared, the window will freeze/crash; force-closing it will cause "Fonts" to no longer launch until you log out.
To Reproduce
fontsIf you then try to force-close "Fonts", you will now be unable to relaunch "Fonts" until you log out.
Expected behavior The "Fonts" window should close normally like it does in Xfce, not freeze/crash.
Additional context The "window of opportunity" regarding how long you have to click the (X) to close the "Fonts" window in order to cause this issue to occur may be related to the time it takes to render the the actual fonts, so with a slower CPU with a mechanical hard drive, you may not have to click the (X) quite as instantly to cause this issue to occur.