Some toolbar label text is not rendering - Ubuntu 22

This is almost certainly a problem with my machine/install, but I’m not sure what to try to resolve it. As you can see in the screenshot, the labels of many toolbar items are not rendering — Each character is rendering as a “missing character glyph”.

  • I’m using the official AppImage from audacityteam.org
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • I’ve tried Audacity 3.7 and 3.6 — issue is present on both
  • I did remember to add executable permissions to the AppImages
  • Changing the theme from light → dark and vice versa does not resolve the issue

I have reinstalled ubuntu-desktop and refreshed fc-cache to make sure all system fonts are present as expected. After reboot, no change. What else should I try?

Some commands are greyed-out because they are not yet actionable.

  • It is not possible to “Undo” or “Redo” until there is something to undo / redo.
  • It is not possible to “Cut” because nothing has been selected to cut.

Take a look at the “Getting Started” part of the manual: Getting Started - Audacity Manual

Sorry, I should have made it a little clearer what I’m referring to. Check out the attached highlighted image.

I’ve not seen that problem before, but we can rule out some possible causes with these steps. I am assuming that the AppImage file is called “audacity-linux-3.7.1-x64-20.04.AppImage” and that you have made it executable.

  1. Create an empty folder to contain the Audacity application, and name it appropriately.
  2. Move the Audacity .AppImage file into the folder.
  3. Open a terminal window in that folder (or navigate to that folder).
  4. Run the command:
./audacity-linux-3.7.1-x64-20.04.AppImage --appimage-portable-home

The above command creates a folder alongside the AppImage to store Audacity’s settings, which should avoid any previous version of Audacity interfering with it.

  1. You can then close the Terminal and run the AppImage.

Following instructions per above (the forum will only let me attach 1 image per post):

audacity_terminal_commands

Result – the issue persists:

My guess is that Audacity requires a specific font that isn’t present on your computer, and for some reason is not able to fall back to a generic font. I’d suggest that you report the issue as a bug on GitHub: Issues · audacity/audacity · GitHub (free registration required). By reporting it yourself you will (by default) be notified of replies, so you will be able to see replies and respond if appropriate.

Thank you, I will do that.

Link to issue in case it’s useful to someone finding this later.

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