From f2b2bed34a14c5187510be699c70d3fd172c2512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sanchayan Maity <maitysanchayan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:46:01 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fontconfig: Set up fallback fonts

In case a glyph is absent in the default font, st uses font-config and
tries to find them in font cache first. This also seems to work for all
VTE terminals. However, alacritty relies on system configuration and does
not do the above. To fix this, we need specify a fallback font manually.
This also seems good practice in general otherwise.

For reference, see the below links.
https://st.suckless.org/patches/font2/
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3690
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Fallback_font_order
https://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/20/i-stared-into-the-fontconfig-and-the-fontconfig-stared-back-at-me/

Also our use of galaxyline plugin for neovim requires nvim-web-devicons
which in turn requires a patched font like Nerd font.
---
 fontconfig/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 fontconfig/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

diff --git a/fontconfig/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf b/fontconfig/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9441e6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fontconfig/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+   <alias>
+      <family>JetBrains Mono</family>
+      <default>
+         <family>monospace</family>
+      </default>
+   </alias>
+   <alias>
+      <family>monospace</family>
+      <prefer>
+        <family>JetBrains Mono</family>
+        <family>TerminessTTF Nerd Font</family>
+      </prefer>
+   </alias>
+</fontconfig>
+