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From: James Richardson <j@mesrichardson.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help displaying Unicode fonts in Icecat
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:36:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0AB31F23-5628-42F4-B459-909EBF92A9BE@mesrichardson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zn8290j.fsf@gmail.com>

I have installed fonts-dejavu in my profile.   Don't remember if this helped with icecat.

On August 7, 2019 1:14:04 PM EDT, Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you running Guix on top of another distribution? I had to add the
>> veriable XDG_DATA_DIRS to the environment, specifically
>> XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/usr/share for Guix running
>on
>> Debian. The variable was set automagically full Guix systems.
>>
>> HTH,
>> jr
>
>Thanks, jr. I'm running GuixSD and I believe XDG_DATA_DIRS is set
>correctly:
>
>$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
>/gnu/store/daxn8m96wk2d2jnz4mxllhk34iv5gjqp-shared-mime-info-1.9/share:/gnu/store/cgy82g6yv8l1chawgch47zh23b0jll3l-glib-2.56.3/share:/gnu/store/l35xlc0hk86qw7kwli8lkskdkxskxsif-gtk+-3.24.9/share:/gnu/store/fbf0h779z46cl55vdciv00m8s0ccfnyb-emacs-26.2/share:/gnu/store/daxn8m96wk2d2jnz4mxllhk34iv5gjqp-shared-mime-info-1.9/share:/gnu/store/cgy82g6yv8l1chawgch47zh23b0jll3l-glib-2.56.3/share:/gnu/store/l35xlc0hk86qw7kwli8lkskdkxskxsif-gtk+-3.24.9/share:/gnu/store/fbf0h779z46cl55vdciv00m8s0ccfnyb-emacs-26.2/share:/home/gjohnson/.guix-profile/share:/home/gjohnson/.guix-profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share:/home/gjohnson/.guix-profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share
>
>I just see boxes in IceCat and Ungoogled-Chromium wherever Unicode
>symbols are supposed to appear, so I don't know if there is another
>font
>package that I need to install or some browser-specific configuration
>files that I need to edit.

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-11 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1848.1565101523.1984.help-guix@gnu.org>
2019-08-07 17:14 ` Need help displaying Unicode fonts in Icecat Gary Johnson
2019-08-09 22:38   ` Mark H Weaver
2019-08-11 20:36   ` James Richardson [this message]
2019-08-05 14:08 Gary Johnson
2019-08-05 14:44 ` John Soo
2019-08-05 18:43 ` j
2019-08-12  2:09 ` ison

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