Thanks Niall,

fontconfig was indirectly installed so fc-cache wasn't in my
.guix-profile/bin instead it was using fc-cache on arch.

running:

guix package -i fontconfig
fc-cache -vfr

Fixed it.

Still curious on why it picked up Hack but not DejaVu, I assume it was
using Hack install on arch and not Guix.



2017-08-21 1:26 GMT-07:00 Niall Dooley <dooleyn@gmail.com>:

> Try installing fontconfig if not installed already and then refresh the
> font cache with
>
> fc-cache -f
>
> or
>
> fc-cache -vfr
>
> Relevant past discussions:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00477.html
>
> <http://goog_2020154044>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00021.html
>
> <http://goog_2020154045>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-02/msg00020.html
>
> HTH,
>
> Niall
>
> Niall
>
> On 21 August 2017 at 05:06, Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> Working on setting up a dual boot with Guix+Arch Linux and GuixSD. Got it
>> running in Arch but having some issues with fonts in emacs. In my org mode
>> I have
>> set org-ellipsis to ⤵ (0x2935)
>>
>> Opening up emacs installed with pacman it renders correctly and doing C-u
>> C-x = over the character it tells me that it's using the font
>>
>>> display:
>>>
>> xft:-PfEd-DejaVu Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
>>> (#xBB6)
>>>
>>
>> But opening up emacs installed with guix I just get a rectangle with the
>> unicode in it instead of the arrow. Doing C-u C-x = on it shows:
>>
>>> display: no font available
>>>
>>
>> I have font-dejavu, font-awesome, font-hack and font-gnu-freefont-ttf
>> install in guix.
>> My emacs config file is here:
>> https://github.com/plattfot/dotemacs/blob/master/init.d/configuration.org
>>
>> Using http://bluejamesbond.github.io/CharacterMap/
>> and browsing to .guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSerif.ttf
>> I can see the character (index 2998, unicode 2935) so I'm not missing the
>> font.
>>
>> The weird part is that it's picking up Hack just fine. So I'm not sure
>> what I'm missing.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g
>>
>
>


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s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g