Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font

[Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@gmail.com>]

Thanks for your quick reply. It did not work for me unfortunately.

I mean, I had those fonts before I installed them via Guix already. I
only tried installing them via Guix to be sure, that there are also some
Guix installed fonts and that it is not an issue of not having any
installed via Guix, which causes Icecat not to find any, when Icecat
itself is installed via Guix. Unfortunately it does not seem that this
is the issue.

After running the fc-cache -f I restarted Icecat and still everything is
monospaced there.


On 5/4/19 7:45 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
>> My guess is, that somehow Icecat installed via Guix is not able to pick
>> up system wide installed fonts and always, no matter what I set, falls
>> back to a monospaced font. Following this guess, I installed Liberation
>> fonts and DejaVu fonts in Guix. However, still everything is monospaced.
>>
>> Also note, that I created a completely new user profile for Icecat, in a
>> non-default path in `~/user/.icecat/profiles`. So everything there
>> should be clean. That directory did not even exist, when I created the
>> profile.
>>
> The manual says:
>
>    After installing fonts you may have to refresh the font cache to use
> them in applications.  The same applies when applications installed via
> Guix do not seem to find fonts.  To force rebuilding of the font cache
> run ‘fc-cache -f’.  The ‘fc-cache’ command is provided by the
> ‘fontconfig’ package.
>
> If I remember correctly, this helped me when I had encountered this issue.