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

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00021.html

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

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