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| author | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2017-07-08 21:15:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2017-07-09 17:07:38 +0200 |
| commit | e5942cbfa488486ed846dd526e5867556442fbb3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f126202988dd4b367e5d8ec0c0ccf2dda18976c /doc | |
| parent | b037ce949f6a462f1b3ddc0aea50a6575752cec0 (diff) | |
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doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.
* doc/guix.texi (X11 Fonts): Recommend rebuilding the font cache with fc-cache
when fonts are not found.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index cd694bbdad..6cf20aa09f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1448,6 +1448,14 @@ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package) to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there. +@cindex @code{fc-cache} +@cindex font cache +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 @code{fc-cache -f}. The @code{fc-cache} command is provided by the +@code{fontconfig} package. + @subsection X.509 Certificates @cindex @code{nss-certs} |