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bug#41241: xfce4 default font display broken after guix pull; sudo guix


From: Marius Bakke
Subject: bug#41241: xfce4 default font display broken after guix pull; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 21:37:41 +0200
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W Knight <address@hidden> 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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