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bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME
From: |
Leo Prikler |
Subject: |
bug#38046: Font Issues in GNOME |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:21:44 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Evolution 3.30.5 |
> In many places, I started to see the contents as 'boxes' instead of
> actual characters. For example, System Monitor and Gajim. Please find
> the attachments with this email.
I've had similar issues and then consulted the manual, where I saw the
following snippet:
> 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 -rv’.
It seems the issue is a stale fontconfig cache. Specifically, the
italic versions of Cantarell seem to cause this behaviour (as Cantarell
was updated along with everything else in Gnome 3.30). I fixed it on
my machine by running ‘fc-cache -rv’ both as user to fix local caches
and as super-user to fix system caches. Perhaps this also overlaps
with [1].
Regards,
Leo
[1] guix-devel mailing list, Stateful System Directories.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00421.html