Re: Gtk+

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>
>> thanks to Ludovic's help, who noticed that the pango input harfbuzz should 
>> be propagated, and after disabling the X server related tests, I managed to 
>> compile gtk+. I just pushed the new package, but so far, I did not test it 
>> with any application, so it might not even work...
>
> Neat, in time for 0.3, thank you!  :-)
>
> I just added it to Emacs:

[...]

> Now, the widgets that use Pango for font rendering (I suppose), like
> menus, display squares instead of actual characters, and the console is
> filled with things like:
>
> Fontconfig error: line 139: invalid attribute 'xml:space'
> Fontconfig error: line 140: invalid attribute 'xml:space'
> Fontconfig error: line 146: invalid attribute 'xml:space'
> Fontconfig warning: "/nix/store/i7gz1hrlrpvaz0dr3qj8hhnqx3rg60rn-fontconfig-2.8.0/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 84: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
> Fontconfig warning: "/nix/store/i7gz1hrlrpvaz0dr3qj8hhnqx3rg60rn-fontconfig-2.8.0/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 84: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
> Fontconfig warning: "/nix/store/i7gz1hrlrpvaz0dr3qj8hhnqx3rg60rn-fontconfig-2.8.0/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 93: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected

I still get these.  However, once gs-fonts is installed in the profile,
everything displays correctly (thanks to commit
0ceea4f3edb6fd158613f2c46d18e037bc183f1a).

My .emacs does this:

  (set-frame-font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12" nil)

So I packaged that font.  Once it’s installed, it’s loaded and used as
expected, and everything works beautifully!

We should probably add a section “Installing and Using Fonts” under “GNU
Distribution”, to explain that fonts are searched for in the user’s
default profile.  Any volunteer?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.