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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Simen Endsjø" <simendsjo@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Testing a new font
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:33:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618123351.GP1990@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu5037an.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 02:08:49PM +0200, Simen Endsjø wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new to Guix (still running in VM) trying to add a new font, but it
> doesn't show up in gnome-tweaks or other places.
> 
> I added the font the font to fonts.scm, and ran
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix install font-iosevka-aile
> 
> I can see the fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype, but it doesn't
> seem
> like they're available anywhere.
> 
> Tried running
> $ sudo fc-cache -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
> 
> but that didn't help either. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

You only need to run 'fc-cache -frv', no need for the sudo or the path.
Actually all of 'frv' aren't needed but it's the combination of flags I
use.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18 12:08 Testing a new font Simen Endsjø
2020-06-18 12:33 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2020-06-18 12:53   ` Simen Endsjø
2020-06-18 13:01   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-06-18 13:22     ` Simen Endsjø
2020-06-18 12:50 ` Pierre Neidhardt

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