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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux
	distribution.
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 23:26:38 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <87pp5o4tk9.fsf@163.com> (Feng Shu's message of "Mon, 25 May 2015
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Please keep the list Cc=E2=80=99d.

Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> Good questions!  I drafted a section on how to use Guix on another
>> GNU/Linux distro, and these are the typical things that need to be
>> answered in that section:
>>
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00282.html
>>
>> Regarding fonts, most GUIs do X11 client-side rendering and rely on
>> Fontconfig.  So to get fonts working in a GTK+ or Qt application, for
>> instance, you need to install packages such as =E2=80=98gs-fonts=E2=80=
=99 and
>> =E2=80=98font-dejavu=E2=80=99; then you need to =E2=80=98guix package -i=
 fontconfig=E2=80=99 and run
>> =E2=80=98fc-cache -f=E2=80=99 to update the font cache.  I suspect this =
may have the
>> property of unregistering fonts that were installed on the host distro.
>
> I find a more simple tip:
>
> ln -s /usr/share/fonts ~/fonts/usr-share-fonts

I fail to see why this would have any effect, but maybe there=E2=80=99s ano=
ther
piece of your setup that I=E2=80=99m missing.  Could you explain?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.