W Knight <[email protected]> writes: > Summary: > After doing a guix pull; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm on a > fresh 1.1.0 install via iso the default font for all xfce displays breaks. > Each character in menu, applications, and terminals is a box with four dots > (no character available). > If I switch from generation 2 (reconfigure) to generation 1 (iso) fonts work > again. > > Workaround: manually adding fonts-dejavu to /etc/config.scm packages and > reconfiguring fixes issue
This roots in the fact that Pango (the font rendering library used by GTK+) no longer supports bitmap fonts: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 We should probably provide a default font in %base-packages to work around this problem, or graft TrueType/OpenType fonts onto the 'gs-fonts' package which is available to most applications (but unfortunately only contains bitmap fonts..). I don't have a clear idea of what a proper solution here would be, feedback wanted.
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