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bug#41241: xfce4 default font display broken after guix pull; sudo guix
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Marius Bakke |
Subject: |
bug#41241: xfce4 default font display broken after guix pull; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm |
Date: |
Wed, 13 May 2020 21:37:41 +0200 |
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Notmuch/0.29.3 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/26.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
W Knight <address@hidden> writes:
> Summary:
> After doing a guix pull; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm on a
> fresh 1.1.0 install via iso the default font for all xfce displays breaks.
> Each character in menu, applications, and terminals is a box with four dots
> (no character available).
> If I switch from generation 2 (reconfigure) to generation 1 (iso) fonts work
> again.
>
> Workaround: manually adding fonts-dejavu to /etc/config.scm packages and
> reconfiguring fixes issue
This roots in the fact that Pango (the font rendering library used by
GTK+) no longer supports bitmap fonts:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
We should probably provide a default font in %base-packages to work
around this problem, or graft TrueType/OpenType fonts onto the
'gs-fonts' package which is available to most applications (but
unfortunately only contains bitmap fonts..).
I don't have a clear idea of what a proper solution here would be,
feedback wanted.
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