Try installing fontconfig if not installed already and then refresh the font cache with
fc-cache -f or fc-cache -vfr Relevant past discussions: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00477.html <goog_2020154044> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00021.html <goog_2020154045> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-02/msg00020.html HTH, Niall Niall On 21 August 2017 at 05:06, Fredrik Salomonsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guix, > > Working on setting up a dual boot with Guix+Arch Linux and GuixSD. Got it > running in Arch but having some issues with fonts in emacs. In my org mode > I have > set org-ellipsis to ⤵ (0x2935) > > Opening up emacs installed with pacman it renders correctly and doing C-u > C-x = over the character it tells me that it's using the font > >> display: >> > xft:-PfEd-DejaVu Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 >> (#xBB6) >> > > But opening up emacs installed with guix I just get a rectangle with the > unicode in it instead of the arrow. Doing C-u C-x = on it shows: > >> display: no font available >> > > I have font-dejavu, font-awesome, font-hack and font-gnu-freefont-ttf > install in guix. > My emacs config file is here: > https://github.com/plattfot/dotemacs/blob/master/init.d/configuration.org > > Using http://bluejamesbond.github.io/CharacterMap/ > and browsing to .guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSerif.ttf > I can see the character (index 2998, unicode 2935) so I'm not missing the > font. > > The weird part is that it's picking up Hack just fine. So I'm not sure > what I'm missing. > > Thanks > > -- > s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g >
