Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

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.