From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zelphir Kaltstahl Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3a_IceCat_from_Guix_all_monospaced_font_=e2=80=93_Summ?= =?UTF-8?Q?ary?= Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 23:29:07 +0200 Message-ID: <09558546-6873-1659-808c-70817d6ce4e3@gmail.com> References: <87h8a8lru1.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> <87k1f4tzx2.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNOh9-0000CS-32 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 17:29:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNOh8-0005WF-39 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 17:29:15 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x435.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::435]:36822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNOh6-0005Ch-Sk for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 17:29:14 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-x435.google.com with SMTP id o4so14763418wra.3 for ; Sun, 05 May 2019 14:29:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k1f4tzx2.fsf@netris.org> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver , Giovanni Biscuolo Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Ah it could be, that a package changed something in `~/.profile`. I will check … No it still looks the same as before. Also I think any installation adding something to my `~/.profile` should tell the user about such a change. No package I installed yesterday did so. Glad that the packages did not unknowingly change something in there. On 5/5/19 10:21 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > >> HWRoitzsch writes: >> >>> So apparently all that was needed after the steps suggested on the >>> mailing list was a restart of my machine or possibly a re-login. >> may it be connected to the evironment? >> >> I guess you are using Guix System on bare metal or VM, I'm using Guix on >> a foreign distro instead >> >> sometime installing new software updates $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile [1] >> adding needed env variables, those variables are usually loaded via >> ~/.profile when using Guix on foreign distro so sometimes I have to >> reload ~/.profile to get an updated environment >> >> I have not enough experience with a full Guix System: could it be the >> same? this would explain why you had to logout/login for IceCat to use >> the right fonts > This sounds very plausible to me. My guess is that one of the packages > that Zelphir installed added new environment variable settings that are > needed for IceCat to find its fonts. > > Mark