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Glimpse, Gimp or other: (navigation) text is displayed in illegible squares

If your Gimp, Glimpse or other drawing software displays squares or rectangles instead of the expected text, here is the solution!

How to solve your Gimp or Glimpse font problem ? easy ! You may need to rebuild the font cache. Fortunately, it’s not too difficult:

Open Terminal (if it’s not already open)

Remove the existing font cache:rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig

Rebuild the cache:sudo fc-cache -r -v

This should resolve the issue for you 👍🏻

Source : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1397208/font-displayed-as-squares-in-ubuntu-20-04