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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: raghavgururajan@disroot.org
Cc: 38046@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:21:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0da06c1de235d36c0919ae7e6cb347a08422f66a.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ec4975f49ea03f477b0bfa22b991edb71dac20c.camel@disroot.org

> In many places, I started to see the contents as 'boxes' instead of
> actual characters. For example, System Monitor and Gajim. Please find
> the attachments with this email.

I've had similar issues and then consulted the manual, where I saw the
following snippet:
> After installing fonts you may have to refresh the font cache to use
> them in applications.  The same applies when applications installed
> via Guix do not seem to find fonts.  To force rebuilding of the font
> cache run ‘fc-cache -rv’.
It seems the issue is a stale fontconfig cache.  Specifically, the
italic versions of Cantarell seem to cause this behaviour (as Cantarell
was updated along with everything else in Gnome 3.30).  I fixed it on
my machine by running ‘fc-cache -rv’ both as user to fix local caches
and as super-user to fix system caches.  Perhaps this also overlaps
with [1].

Regards,

Leo

[1] guix-devel mailing list, Stateful System Directories. 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00421.html

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-03 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-03 16:45 bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME Raghav Gururajan
2019-11-03 18:21 ` Leo Prikler [this message]
2019-11-04 13:04   ` Raghav Gururajan

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