Re: Testing a new font

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 02:08:49PM +0200, Simen Endsjø wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new to Guix (still running in VM) trying to add a new font, but it
> doesn't show up in gnome-tweaks or other places.
> 
> I added the font the font to fonts.scm, and ran
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix install font-iosevka-aile
> 
> I can see the fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype, but it doesn't
> seem
> like they're available anywhere.
> 
> Tried running
> $ sudo fc-cache -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
> 
> but that didn't help either. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

You only need to run 'fc-cache -frv', no need for the sudo or the path.
Actually all of 'frv' aren't needed but it's the combination of flags I
use.

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