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mcstayinskool

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Registered: 2015-05-18

Posts: 9

gnome3 default font cantarell disappeared from interface

I have an up-to-date stable arch install, and today my Gnome3 desktop environment was showing what appeared to be a fallback font for much of the interface.

I went into the tweak tool and noticed that several of the elements under the font tab listed the (window tiles, interface, documents) listed the font as "None". I'm able to select a new font, but the default font Cantarell is not in the list, and the interface doesn't look the same without it.

I reinstalled the cantarell-fonts package and confirmed the included files in that package are where they are supposed to be. However, Cantarell still does not show up as an available font anywhere.

Is anyone else seeing this, and does anyone have any insight on how I might fix?

cheers,
#!/ben

TheChickenMan

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From: United States

Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 354

Re: gnome3 default font cantarell disappeared from interface

The Cantarell package was just updated.

$ fc-cache -fv might fix it.
Rebooting definitely will.

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mcstayinskool

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Registered: 2015-05-18

Posts: 9

Re: gnome3 default font cantarell disappeared from interface

Thanks for the help.

I'd rebooted before posting to the forum, and that hadn't worked.

I ran
$ fc-cache -fv
and that didn't work

However, rebooting after the fc-cache -fv command DID work.

cheers,
#!/ben

lolow

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Registered: 2013-05-21

Posts: 4

Re: gnome3 default font cantarell disappeared from interface

$ fc-cache -fv
as a normal user then log out and log in works for me

thanks for the tips.