Installation Issue

[eteffy]

I'm attempting to install matter as per the instructions in the readme file, but I keep getting an error.

ezra@ezras-linux:~/Documents/Grub themes/matter$ ./matter.py -i ubuntu folder _ _ _ _ microsoft-windows
[I] Begin Matter install
[I] Build theme from user preferences
[I] Convert icons
Inkscape 1.1.2 (0a00cf5339, 2022-02-04)

ConcreteInkscapeApplication<Gtk::Application>::on_open: Can't use '--export-filename' with multiple input files (output file would be overwritten for each input file). Please use '--export-type' instead and rename manually.
ConcreteInkscapeApplication<Gtk::Application>::on_open: Can't use '--export-filename' with multiple input files (output file would be overwritten for each input file). Please use '--export-type' instead and rename manually.
ConcreteInkscapeApplication<Gtk::Application>::on_open: Can't use '--export-filename' with multiple input files (output file would be overwritten for each input file). Please use '--export-type' instead and rename manually.
[I] Build font
can't open file themes/matter/Matter/font.pf2, index 0: error 1: cannot open resource
can't open file /home/ezra/Documents/Grub, index 0: error 2: unknown file format
can't open file themes/matter/fonts/Josefin_Sans_Regular.ttf, index 0: error 1: cannot open resource

[E] /usr/bin/grub-mkfont execution was not clean
[E] for fontfile: /home/ezra/Documents/Grub themes/matter/fonts/Josefin_Sans_Regular.ttf

Am I doing something wrong? I apologize if it's a stupid error, I'm a linux noob.

Am I supposed to be running the matter.py from the directory it is in (as shown above)? Also, am I supposed to leave the theme.txt.template as is or should it be theme.txt? Looking at other examples of installing grub themes online indicates that it should be theme.txt.

[mateosss]

Hey! no worries.

The can't open file errors look suspicious; they are cut right before and after the space in your directory Grub themes. It is quite possibly just an error in handling spaces in paths. You can try putting matter into a path without spaces.

If that's the problem this needs to be fixed in the codebase, thanks for reporting.

If not, what distro are you using?

[heyzec]

Was able to reproduce this error when in a VM by moving the repo into a folder named with spaces. This should be fixed by quoting paths in svg2png.py:

matter/svg2png.py

Line 86 in 2fe52ef

command += f"--export-filename={dst_path} "

[eteffy]

Hey! no worries.

The can't open file errors look suspicious; they are cut right before and after the space in your directory Grub themes. It is quite possibly just an error in handling spaces in paths. You can try putting matter into a path without spaces.

If that's the problem this needs to be fixed in the codebase, thanks for reporting.

If not, what distro are you using?

Removed the space from my directory and that solved the issue. Thanks!

[mateosss]

Thanks as always @heyzec for the testing! let's reopen the issue until we have a MR fixing this