On my system, when starting Inkscape, selecting the text tool, and clicking on the arrow button on the dropdown list of font families, the font list is clipped to a vertical height which is less than the available space, and it is missing the vertical scrollbar. (The horizontal scrollbar, however, displays fine, and wiggles a bit initially as the list gets populated). It is nevertheless possible to scroll the list vertically with the arrow keys (not the mouse wheel).
When clicking away to close the dropdown and clicking again on the button, the dropdown list displays fine.
Initial investigation suggests that the problem may be occurring because the dropdown list displays while the list itself is being populated and cells rendered by calls to src/libnrtype/font-lister.cpp:font_lister_cell_data_funct. In particular I am suspicious about the call to gtk_rc_parse_string in src/widgets/text-toolbar.cpp:sp_text_toolbox_prep that occurs before the calls to font_lister_cell_data_funct have completed. (Artificially slowing down the latter causes the incomplete list to be clipped to a smaller height.) Yet we couldn't find an easy fix.
Any ideas?
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Debian stretch AMD64, i3 window manager
Inkscape revision 14284 compiled from source
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