From: "Todor Kondić" <tk.code@protonmail.com>
To: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
Cc: "help-guix\\@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Icecat doesn't display any text
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:18:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jtdMV3PT2F92fy3bQrFIEWjH_mRHBM_97ARsUbFlgSrjce12YmbIQad0AuwzcPKSvcfIm3jBKE0fOzFXdjLEXdskI3-pfgOKvDgoWwqWcv4=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h87ur8gd.fsf@gnu.org>
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
>
> > I solved it by either,
> >
> > - installing bunch of new fonts
> > - running fc-cache -f
> > - re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> > - hash guix
> >
> > or some combination of the above.
>
> Sourcing the profile would define XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is required for
> font display. Installing fonts and running fc-cache may have provided
> fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts, which is part of XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> This is a known issue (which I experience when running Icecat in a
> container) that hopefully can be addressed by someone who knows a bit
> more than me about the proper way to fix the problem. :) It's a problem
> for people on foreign distros.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Mike Gerwitz
> Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
> GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05
> https://mikegerwitz.com
... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; do you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the variable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-09 16:03 Icecat doesn't display any text TK
2019-07-09 16:19 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-09 16:32 ` Todor Kondić
2019-07-09 16:52 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-07-10 1:20 ` Mike Gerwitz
2019-07-10 7:18 ` Todor Kondić [this message]
2019-07-10 9:32 ` Todor Kondić
2019-07-13 23:00 ` ison
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