rebuild font cache

    # put together arguments - conda_env, application, argv

    args=("${CONDA_ENVIRON}" "quicknxs" "$@")

    # override the normal call to activate_and_launch() function

    # first argument is conda environment

    CONDA_EXP_ENV="${1}"

    shift

    # second argument is startup command

    COMMAND="${1}"

    shift

    # the rest is passed to the command being started

    _remove_font_cache

    # rebuild the font cache

    fc-cache -r

    # start the application

    activate_and_launch "${args[@]}"

    activate_conda_environment "${CONDA_EXP_ENV}"

    echo "Execute: ${COMMAND} $*"

    "${COMMAND}" "$@"

}

fi