On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 11:53, Todor Kondić <tk.c...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> I know similar questions have been asked here and the problem came and went > time and again for me personally, but here I am, a new Guix/PopOs > installation and icecat throwing fits. > > The icecat GUI (including the input text boxes), as well as some websites > display blocks instead of characters. Some other websites do show fonts > correctly. > > Possibly relevant errors: > ... > Gtk-Message: 10:48:16.732: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" > Gtk-Message: 10:48:16.734: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" > Gtk-Message: 10:48:16.815: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module" > > (/gnu/store/73j8fcmalx3asc5gy0rd2rcij0wqgn9v-icecat-68.4.1-guix0-preview1/lib/icecat/.icecat-real:4621): > Pango-WARNING **: 10:48:16.816: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect > ugly output. the offending font is 'Nimbus Sans L 9.9990234375' > ... > > The abovementioned Nimbus Sans does show up in my fc-list: > fc-list|grep "Nimbus Sans" > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019003l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019044l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019023l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019063l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019004l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019043l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019024l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic > /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript/n019064l.pfb: > Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic > > I have installed font-dejavu and font-liberation (as well as some other > fonts) and I also installed fontconfig from guix. That fc-cache has been run > in '-f' and '-r' forms. I have also tried with the system's > /usr/bin/fc-cache. Both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS have been set. > > I am running a multiprofile setup, similar to the one described in the > cookbook > (https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/guix-cookbook.html#Advanced-package-management) > > icecat version: GNU IceCat 68.4.1esr > guix version: 09bad3cd42ca51974f3697f04ce841bf2fe6786c ... now is see that the mentioned "Nimbus Sans" is part of the ghostscript collection of fonts. Is this GUI compatible?