No text rendering in Pianoteq

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I just installed Clear Linux and I downloaded and ran Pianoteq (a physically modelled piano synth).
When you first run it, there’s a dialog box that should show a bunch of text, but there’s nothing, not even tofu (the little boxes that show up when you’re missing a font). Note: When I ran Pianoteq on a fresh Arch Linux installation, I got tofu, fixed by installing the necessary ttf fonts.
I suppose this means that the problem is not a missing font, but something else entirely.
I would not even know how to begin to solve this issue.
I used ldd on the binary and it didn’t say I was missing any libraries.
I use the paid-for version but you can reproduce the issue by using the standard trial from Modartt: Try
Just extract the 7z file and run ./pianoteq_linux_trial_v660/Pianoteq\ 6/amd64/Pianoteq\ 6
I’ve done a ton of googling but don’t know what else to do. Any advice? I’m willing to do more to fix the issue, but I need guidance.

Another unrelated issue, when I tried running from the terminal, I got “ALSA lib seq_hw.c:466:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory”
I solved this by using “sudo modprobe snd-seq” but found that it didn’t presist after a reboot, so I created /etc/modules-load.d, then I created pianoteq.conf inside it with the text “snd-seq”.
It works, but is this the recommended way to automatically load kernel modules?

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Have a look at how we get Chrome to load the right fonts.

Also see my comment near the bottom as the original solution doesn’t work anymore.

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Hi carolosf, thanks for replying!
I tried what you suggested, and after a reboot Pianoteq still did not render text, so I also tried /etc/enviroments and rebooted and that did not work either.
I uploaded a screenshot to demonstrate what I’m seeing. Any ideas?

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Thank you for your time, but never mind. I have encountered several other issues inherent to the current state of Clear Linux that can only be resolved with significant manual effort, so I will be leaving Clear for the time being. I hope to see it improve in the future!

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I have the same issue than Gunner_Palmgren when using VST plugins.

I did some googling and I found out that most VST plugins use Juice.
This issue is mentioned in the forum: No Text...? - Linux - JUCE and No text in Projecer and Juce examples - Linux - JUCE.

I tried making a symbolic link of /usr/share/fonts into /etc/fonts but it didn’t fix the issue. So, maybe I’m missing some font that Juice requires by default?

I will keep trying to solve this issue.

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My bad. I made a symbolic link of the wrong path :sweat_smile:

I just made a symbolic link of /usr/share/defaults/fonts into /etc/fonts, and it worked! I understand that it is not the right solution, because of how Clear Linux works, but the problem is that Juice looks for the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as you can see in the file juice_linux_Fonts.cpp at JUCEUnrealBridge/juce_linux_Fonts.cpp at 8ec10b4431612ef3e15e3476ea8110cf7306a08d · WeAreROLI/JUCEUnrealBridge · GitHub.