[Solved] MonoDevelop text all shown as square characters in hoempage on linux Debian

[bahawx]

Hi, I have the same problem as in the following places:

Monodevelop font bug...

MonoDevelop text all shown as square characters.

https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17133

and especially here:

MonoDevelop text all shown as square characters.

however all solutions seem to be working on MacOS but not on my Debian 8 laptop, and I’ve spent a couple of hours working on it and got very frustrated

I’d appreciate any help.
screenshots:

[Baste]

Visual Studio Code works on Linux platforms!

As you’ve discovered, MonoDevelop generally doesn’t work. True, the way in which it doesn’t work is unique and exciting on every platform, but the end result is always that it doesn’t work.

[bahawx]

@Baste

Visual Studio Code works on Linux platforms!

As you’ve discovered, MonoDevelop generally doesn’t work. True, the way in which it doesn’t work is unique and exciting on every platform, but the end result is always that it doesn’t work.

Thanks a lot for your feedback Baste, however I do prefer not working on visual studio if I could!
It took me a considerable effort to get the environment to this stage, and I’m optimistic that only one step is left
BTW I watched “Teslagrad” trailer and I like it

[bahawx]

WOW I finally solved it!

1. I ran monodevelop in a terminal like this:
   monodevelop --no-redirect

2. It gave me so many errors relating to pango
   and after searching about them I found this beautiful page:
   and the solution provided was:

$ su -

cd /usr/share/fonts

find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;

find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

It worked like a charm