bug#33996: Icecat is missing fonts

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>]

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Em 06/01/2019 08:31, swedebugia@riseup.net escreveu:
> After installing Icecat on guixsd v0.16 and starting it it shows only
> squares instead of text and pango warns "missing font nimbus ..."

This behavior seems similar to what I experience while using Guix in
Trisquel 8.0
Flidas. The problem doesn't cause squares to appear, it actually causes
the last text font that fontconfig advertises to IceCat, to be selected.

I don't know how fontconfig selects these fonts, but I noticed that you
can test this by placing some font in "~/.local/share/fonts" and running
`fc-cache -vf'. IceCat should pick that font. You might need to try with
different fonts, as IceCat seems to expect from fontconfig that it
selects fonts with specific properties.



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