GNU bug report logs - #38437
Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome applications

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 18:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Royce Strange <royball <at> disroot.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 38437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
Cc: 38437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38437: Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome
 applications
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 17:00:35 -0500

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 20:10:30 +0100
Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> Have you tried refreshing your fontconfig cache (i.e. the system cache
> in /var/cache/fontconfig)?  I encountered similar issues a while ago
> with System Monitor and Tweaks (and so did others, who also reported
> the bug), and it seemed to be caused by a stale cache.  IIRC you don't
> need to install Cantarell as user, but you may still do so if you
> wish.

Aha! I'd tried refreshing the user-level fontconfig cache with
'fc-cache -f', but I hadn't run that as root to refresh the system
cache. That did the trick. Thank you! :)
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