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Alone2

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Registered: 2019-07-15

Posts: 2

Arch with i3-gaps - Font is invisible

Hello, I just installed arch for the first time.

I installed i3-gaps but somehow it does not display any fonts. screenshot

Inside the i3 config I defined my font like this:

font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 10

When I use this font everything looks normal:

font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1

The DejaVu font is installed

$ fc-list | grep "DejaVu Sans Mono"
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique

I also tried other fonts but none of them worked.

I tried to look up my font configuration.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME (where the fontconfig folder should be?) is not defined.
The folder does also not exist under $HOME/.config/fontconfig (I don't know if should be like that or not)

Here is my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

Any ideas on how to solve this?
Thank you in advance!

Alone2

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Registered: 2019-07-15

Posts: 2

Re: Arch with i3-gaps - Font is invisible

I was able to solve my problem thanks to this reddit post