* bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME
@ 2019-11-03 16:45 Raghav Gururajan
2019-11-03 18:21 ` Leo Prikler
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From: Raghav Gururajan @ 2019-11-03 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 38046
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Hello Guix!
I forgot to report this earlier.
After last 'core-updates' --> 'master' merge, when gnome was upgraded
to 3.30.X, I started to face issues with fonts on gnome.
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.
Regards,
RG.
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* bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME
2019-11-03 16:45 bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME Raghav Gururajan
@ 2019-11-03 18:21 ` Leo Prikler
2019-11-04 13:04 ` Raghav Gururajan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Leo Prikler @ 2019-11-03 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: raghavgururajan; +Cc: 38046
> 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
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* bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME
2019-11-03 18:21 ` Leo Prikler
@ 2019-11-04 13:04 ` Raghav Gururajan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Raghav Gururajan @ 2019-11-04 13:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Prikler; +Cc: 38046
>> 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 worked. Thank you :-)
Regards,
RG.
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