From: j@mesrichardson.com
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help displaying Unicode fonts in Icecat
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:43:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3640c253631b85f79043b443d6df931.squirrel@gandalf.jamestechnotes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wofrogc6.fsf@gmail.com>
> Hi Guix,
>
> I can't seem to get Unicode fonts to display in Icecat (and
> Emacs...and really everywhere else too). I'm not a font wizard, so I'm
> unsure how to resolve this issue. I've installed both of these packages:
>
> - font-dejavu
> - font-liberation
>
> Then I ran "fc-cache -f" and rebooted my machine. Still, I'm not seeing
> anything change unfortunately. I just get empty boxes where Unicode
> symbols should be displayed.
>
> Am I missing the correct font package? Do I need to edit a config file
> somewhere? Any advice would be appreciated.
Are you running Guix on top of another distribution? I had to add the
veriable XDG_DATA_DIRS to the environment, specifically
XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/usr/share for Guix running on
Debian. The variable was set automagically full Guix systems.
HTH,
jr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-05 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-05 14:08 Need help displaying Unicode fonts in Icecat Gary Johnson
2019-08-05 14:44 ` John Soo
2019-08-05 18:43 ` j [this message]
2019-08-12 2:09 ` ison
[not found] <mailman.1848.1565101523.1984.help-guix@gnu.org>
2019-08-07 17:14 ` Gary Johnson
2019-08-09 22:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-08-11 20:36 ` James Richardson
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