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From: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Font installed in non-default profile doesn't appear.
Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 19:07:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wowc2zsg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po24u405.fsf@gmail.com>


Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello George,
>
> George Clemmer (2018-05-08 20:04 -0400) wrote:
>
>> In a "headless" vm-image (sysi29.scm, attached), "font-dejavu" installed
>> by manifest (attached) into the "empty" default profile ...
>>
>> 'guix package -m manifest'
>>
>> ... appears in the emacs 'M-x menu-set-font' choice box. But it doesn't
>> appear with the same manifest installed in the "foo" profile ...
>
> To make fonts available from a non-standard profile I added the
> following line into my "~/config/fontconfig/fonts.conf":
>
>   <dir>~/path-to-my-profile/share/fonts</dir>

Thank you Alex!

On the chance it might be useful to someone else, this ...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
<dir>~/path-to-my-profile/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

... in "~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf" worked for me ;-)

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-09 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-09  0:04 Font installed in non-default profile doesn't appear George Clemmer
2018-05-09 17:34 ` Alex Kost
2018-05-09 23:07   ` George Clemmer [this message]

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