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authorRicardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>2017-07-08 21:15:21 +0200
committerRicardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>2017-07-09 17:07:38 +0200
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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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@@ -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}