Subject: bug#27626: closed (Re: bug#27626: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.))

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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 15:17:03 +0000

Your bug report

#27626: [PATCH] doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#27626: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.)
From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 17:16:38 +0200
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Pushed to master with commit e5942cbfa488486ed846dd526e5867556442fbb3.

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Subject: [PATCH] doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.
From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 21:16:34 +0200
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* doc/guix.texi (X11 Fonts): Recommend rebuilding the font cache with fc-cache
when fonts are not found.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index cd694bbda..6cf20aa09 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -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}
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