Bug#866114: texlive-fonts-extra: Icon errors when installed alongside fonts-font-awesome

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

tags 866114 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Connor,

> I use fontawesome to set workspace "icons" in my i3 window manager
> config. If I only have the fonts-font-awesome package installed,
> everything looks fine. However, when I install TeX, the fontawesome
> glyphs no longer render properly in i3 (http://i.imgur.com/Js3Nfv1.png
> -- should contain the firefox logo, the terminal icon, and a dot,
> respectively).

Hmmm, I am not sure whether this is a problem of texlive-fonts-extra.
This package depends on 
	fonts-font-awesome
and links the .otf file into the texmf tree, so nothing changes here.

In addition, it installs the type1 font version
	/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome.pfb
but this directory is not activated for X fonts. And even if it is,
fontconfig should find the otf font, too, and deliver it.

Do you have personal fontconfig configuration files that add specific
directories to the fontconfig search path?

In any case, can you use
	fc-list | grep -i awesome
In my case I get:
	/usr/share/fonts/opentype/font-awesome/FontAwesome.otf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
	/usr/share/fonts/woff/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff: FontAwesome:style=Regular
	/usr/share/fonts/truetype/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
nothing that is touched at all by the TeX packages.

All the best

Norbert

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