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Save dialog unusable

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Since Jun 15, 2026.

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Description

Most appropriate sub-area of Processing 4?

I'm not sure, Core/Environment/Rendering

Processing version

4.5.2

Operating system

Linux CachyOS

Bug description

The content of the Save dialog won't render, so that it is blank and unusable. See screenshot.

Steps to reproduce this
  1. File --> Save
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And I see a lot of libfreetype error messages via journalctl:

Jun 13 13:25:34 cachyos-x8664 Processing[10332]: drawing failure for widget 'GtkFileChooserEntry': error occurred in libfreetype
Jun 13 13:25:34 cachyos-x8664 Processing[10332]: drawing failure for widget 'GtkGrid': error occurred in libfreetype
Jun 13 13:25:34 cachyos-x8664 Processing[10332]: drawing failure for widget 'GtkBox': error occurred in libfreetype
Jun 13 13:25:34 cachyos-x8664 Processing[10332]: drawing failure for widget 'GtkFileChooserWidget': error occurred in libfreetype
Jun 13 13:25:34 cachyos-x8664 Processing[10332]: drawing failure for widget 'GtkBox': error occurred in libfreetype
Jun 13 13:25:34 cachyos-x8664 Processing[10332]: drawing failure for widget 'GtkFileChooserDialog': error occurred in libfreetype
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