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Dotty shows all labels as dots (period) instead of text

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I have the following graphviz graph: The output of this graph should be And this is indeed what I get if I try to use dot to generate a file (e.g. by ). When I try to use dotty to display it, however, all the labels appear as periods: What causes this problem, and how can I solve this? I have used …

Error Output

digraph finite_state_machine {
    a -> b [ label = "c" ];
}

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Fix for: Dotty shows all labels as dots (period) instead of text

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My solution is too simple. I examined and found the following: So, I installed the indicated packages: I rebotted and Dotty graphs became beautiful, but the default font name remains unknown for me.

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