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40/44: doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: 40/44: doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 11:09:15 -0400 (EDT)

rekado pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit e5942cbfa488486ed846dd526e5867556442fbb3
Author: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Jul 8 21:15:21 2017 +0200

    doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.
    
    * 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 cd694bb..6cf20aa 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.
 
address@hidden @code{fc-cache}
address@hidden 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
address@hidden package.
+
 @subsection X.509 Certificates
 
 @cindex @code{nss-certs}



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