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On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz <m...@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
>
> > I solved it by either,
> >
> > -   installing bunch of new fonts
> > -   running fc-cache -f
> > -   re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> > -   hash guix
> >
> > or some combination of the above.
>
> Sourcing the profile would define XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is required for
> font display. Installing fonts and running fc-cache may have provided
> fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts, which is part of XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> This is a known issue (which I experience when running Icecat in a
> container) that hopefully can be addressed by someone who knows a bit
> more than me about the proper way to fix the problem. :) It's a problem
> for people on foreign distros.
>
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> Mike Gerwitz
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... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you 
were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; do 
you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the variable?

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