[Edit] I later realized my issue only occurs when I am using NX to remote access my machine. Therefore I edited the title and description.

I have also found the temp solution, which is to "disable render extension" in the custom display settings. But doing so makes the NX experience very slow laggy, and not that nice to look at. [/EDIT]

I did a fresh install on a new computer, and was trying to setup my fonts.

When I log in remotely via NX, my the text are missing on all gtk based interfaces.

That means most menues (except for unity), right click menues, applications themselves, terminal, and so on.

About the only thing unaffected is firefox. all the texts are showing just fine for firefox. So that probably already says something about text permissions.

I went to check if my fonts have the correct permissions and they do.

I removed my custom settings from /etc/fonts/config.d, and still the texts are missing.

There is a work around by using "disable render extension" in the custom display settings.

How do I fix this issue permanently?