Hi Mark, > > Also, compare the output of fc-list(1) on each machine? > > It looks like this might be the culprit. I aggressively went through > the working machine and removed any font that wasn't present on the > non-working machine. Now, neither machine works! Progress! How did you remove the fonts from the working machine? Delete pacman packages containing them? Have you a record of what you removed? > So now the issue is that even though both machines have been configured > to use the same font all along No, it sounds like the same search for a font was configured on both and the search resulted in a different font. Have you perused https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts ? > clearly the one that _was_ working was falling back to some other font > for the glyphs the selected font didn't have. Or it was choosing a different font to the non-working machine for the same search criteria. > I'm not sure if there's a sane way to find out what exactly was > happening there. Ideally I'd like both machines to work. Get the working one working once again and see what matches against the search criteria configured in the program. fc-match(1) can be helpful. -- Cheers, Ralph.
