doc: Recommend rebuilding the font cache.

* doc/guix.texi (X11 Fonts): Recommend rebuilding the font cache with fc-cache
when fonts are not found.
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@ -1448,6 +1448,14 @@ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package) After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package)
to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there. to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there.
@cindex @code{fc-cache}
@cindex font cache
After installing fonts you may have to refresh the font cache to use
them in applications. The same applies when applications installed via
Guix do not seem to find fonts. To force rebuilding of the font cache
run @code{fc-cache -f}. The @code{fc-cache} command is provided by the
@code{fontconfig} package.
@subsection X.509 Certificates @subsection X.509 Certificates
@cindex @code{nss-certs} @cindex @code{nss-certs}