Hi all and thanks for helping. I found out what was causing the blurriness of my font (Latin Modern Roman) which lacks built-in hinting.
According to the Arch Wiki[1], some GTK applications don't read the fontconfig configuration and this explains why the font was blurry only in Icecat. So, I installed the xrdb package and added this config: ~/.Xresources ------------------------------ Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: rgb This fixed the blurriness on my low res display. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration#Incorrect_hinting_in_GTK_applications Regards,-------- Original Message -------- On Feb 17, 2025, 17:08, Oleander wrote: > Hello, > is it possible to define my own fonts.conf file with a Guix home service or > to prevent Guix from creating the ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf symlink? > I'm using a font that lacks built-in hints and I need to enable the autohint > setting with fontconfig by editing the fonts.conf file but this is not > possible with Guix. The file is read-only and even if I delete it with root > privileges, it is always recreated when I reconfigure my system. > > The manual > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Fonts-Home-Services.html only > explains how to define an alias/font family by listing > "~/.nix-profile/share/fonts but not a local fonts.conf file and whether it's > possible. > > Thanks!
