Bug#1118764: yelp: No text visible

[Simon McVittie]

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 at 03:01:29 +0200, Igor Calì wrote:
>Opening Yelp shows a black background (if Dark theme is selected in 
>the Gnome
>settings) or a white one (if Light theme is selected).
>In both theme conditions no text is visible.

It's working fine here (tried on a laptop with GNOME from experimental, 
and on GNOME and Cinnamon VMs with GNOME from unstable). In a slow VM 
it does take a few seconds for content to appear, with the 
arrow-with-spinner cursor, but that doesn't match the symptoms you 
reported.

>Moving the mouse cursor 
>inside the
>windows makes sometimes turn the cursor from arrow (default) to the 
>hand/link
>one. I believe this is because I am hovering the mouse where some text is
>supposed to be displayed, but it's same color as the background.

That does sound like a text rendering problem where the text is either 
the same colour as the background, or laid out but not rendered for some 
other reason.

What desktop environment are you using?

Are you using a non-standard theme (other than Adwaita) or some other 
unusual configuration?

     smcv