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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:52:09 +0100
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Hi Marco,

Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> skribis:

> When I follow the manual at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts ,
> I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm
> trying to add it:
>
>
> gast@graviton ~$ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
> xset:  bad font path element (#0), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> gast@graviton ~$ ls -l ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir 
> lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 84 Jan  1  1970 /home/gast/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir -> /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
> gast@graviton ~$ xset +fp /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype
>
>
> The last command exits with code 0.  Apparently, xset(1) does not want
> me to add symlink(2)s that point to valid directories.

Would this be a good fix:


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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 24db16761..35221ff94 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ To be able to use such full names for the TrueType fonts installed in
 your Guix profile, you need to extend the font path of the X server:
 
 @example
-xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
+xset +fp `readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype`
 @end example
 
 @cindex @code{xlsfonts}

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?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.

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