No text on Scilab gui

Question

I'm using Arch Linux, I downloaded the tarball from scilab's site, and the GUI looks like this:

The problem is that there are no labels, or text, on the GUI menus. Any idea on why it happens? Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65876651/no-text-on-scilab-gui

Answer 1

I had this issue today on my fedora 33, and after 3 hours of searching ( although I didn't find anything useful), so I tried to change the system font, and surprisingly It worked! I hope it works for you too.