zimoun writes: > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke wrote: >> zimoun writes: > >> > Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes why? >> >> The only known difference since the core-updates merge is that >> applications using Pango (e.g. GTK+) no longer recognizes bitmap fonts. >> >> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 > > Thank you for the pointer but I think it is another issue. > > >> > I mean, on my machine -- Guix on the top of Debian with font-dejavu >> > installed -- why does commit 4bdf4182fe (core-update merge) not >> > display correctly and the parent commit c81457a588 too but the other >> > parent commit 23a59b180b displays nicely? >> >> Leo reported problems with fonts on Debian in >> , but said that fonts installed >> with Guix still worked. I don't know what could cause it to fail on >> your system. > > Thank for the pointer, it seems the same issue. But I am not sure > because I am using the font from Guix. > > Well, I have font-dejavu-2.37 and fontconfig-2.13.1 installed in > ~/.guix-profile from Guix e98689f. > > > When I run > > guix pull --commit=4bdf4182fe -p /tmp/bad > > then > > display /tmp/bad/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png > > there is an issue. Note that 'imagemagick' is installed in > ~/.guix-profile using the same commit above. > > > The commit 4bdf4182fe is the commit of merge. If I pull from the > (left) parent commit, i.e., the commit c81457a588, > > guix pull --commit=c81457a588 -p /tmp/left > > then > > display /tmp/right/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png > > displays nicely and the font is correct. However, if I pull form the > (right) parent commit, i.e., the commit 23a59b180b, > > guix pull --commit=23a59b180b -p /tmp/right > > then > > display /tmp/right/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png > > displays wrongly. Well, I have changed nothing, considering the > fonts. And the only difference is commit from "master" vs from > "core-updates". And as I explained [1], it always happens when > core-updates is merged. Missing fonts in the manual is another known issue and was not clear from your initial message: .