diff --git a/hosts/live.nix b/hosts/live.nix
index 5e8c04a..d3f0c8d 100644
--- a/hosts/live.nix
+++ b/hosts/live.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@
   isoImage.volumeID = lib.mkForce "NOMARCHY_LIVE";
   isoImage.edition = lib.mkForce "live";
 
+  # The minimal-CD profile slims the image for a CONSOLE installer; this
+  # ISO is the desktop, so re-enable what it strips. Above all
+  # fontconfig (upstream forces it off at mkOverride 500): without it
+  # no configured family resolves — Waybar icons render as tofu and
+  # Ghostty silently falls back to the wrong font (seen on the
+  # Latitude 5410). Normal priority (100) beats the override.
+  fonts.fontconfig.enable = true;
+  xdg.icons.enable = true;
+  xdg.mime.enable = true;
+  xdg.autostart.enable = true;
+  documentation.enable = true;
+  documentation.man.enable = true;
+
   # Do NOT touch networking.wireless here: since NixOS 26.05 the
   # NetworkManager module drives its wifi backend through it
   # (wireless.enable = true + dbusControlled). Force-disabling it