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Why is my font turning into unknown symbols in some areas of my desktop UI?

By Sarah Rodriguez •

If effects my desktop icons, as well as all text in Nautilus, and other programs, like Sublime Merge in the picture.

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1 Answer

This reflects a problem with the font cache (for your user). You can refresh the font cache with the following commands in a terminal:

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig
fc-cache -r -v

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