Local Font directories no longer work, custom fonts are not accessible about figma-linux HOT 6 CLOSED

@martonlente Did you try other installation of the app for you distro? rpm, deb or pacman package? I meen use app without any containers and middleware

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Hi @ChugunovRoman,

Thanks for the tip! After removing the Flatpak and Figma settings, I just installed and tried the RPM from scratch. I experience exactly the same as above: custom fonts are missing. (Also the 'dark mode not working' bug is present, so the app seems to behave with no difference.)

It's interesting, that custom fonts with the Flatpak version used to seamlessly work with no additional settings compared to other graphic applications. Can you confirm that custom fonts should work with the desktop app on the first place? Or is it just fortunate 'coincidence' that I could use the app with custom fonts?

Is it possible that the 'feature' broke in a recent update?

I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Thanks!

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Hi @ChugunovRoman,

I managed to fully isolate the above issue. It seems that v0.11.0 breaks local fonts being available in Figma for Linux. I can confirm custom fonts work in all versions I tested up to v0.10.0 in Flatpak version on openSUSE Linux.

There is a suspicious change listed in v0.11.0 release logs: move font manager on nodeJS side Is it possible that this change breaks the feature?

Let me add, that All system files' access must be enabled in Flatpak Permission Settings to for Figma for Linux to access system fonts:

No additional settings are needed for custom fonts to work up until v0.10.0. Adding custom font managers' directories, like in the above screenshot neither is needed when using font managers.

*Update: It seems indeed necessary to also explicitly add custom font managers' directories, like in the above screenshot, when configuring Figma for Linux on a new computer.

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@martonlente I install the app (figma-linux-bin 0.11.2-1) from AUR, and local fonts works fine:

So the functionality is not broken...
Can you provide the log file? ~/.config/figma-linux/logfile.log (the log file appears starts with 0.11.0 version)

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Hi, I just upgraded to version 0.11.2 and I do have access to the local fonts, I used the deb package to install, in the settings it looks the same as the issue creator, but I can use the fonts that I installed

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Hi,

Thank you for all your feedback. I just unmasked v0.10.0 Flatpak app (the latest Flatpak version that worked with local fonts), and upgraded to v0.11.2. I can confirm that local fonts perfectly work again! 👍

Thank you!

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