From: jorge+list@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto)
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack?
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 13:50:50 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rsdrgnp.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
Hi. I use an updated Guix atop Debian buster on an x86-64 notebook. I
had font problems in GNU Emacs. I took hours to recognize them as such
and find the cause: Emacs was not using the fonts from Debian in
`/usr/share/fonts'. I then worked around the problem by symlinking
/usr/share/fonts to `~/.local/share/fonts' and invoking `fc-cache'
(don't remember the exact parameters I used). Then additional fonts
appeared in the output of `fc-list' and were indeed available to Emacs.
Two questions:
1. Could this symlink cause problems for Debian applications?
2. Why does not Guix `fc-cache' look in `/usr/share/fonts'?
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next reply other threads:[~2020-01-05 16:51 UTC|newest]
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2020-01-05 16:50 Jorge P. de Morais Neto [this message]
2020-01-05 18:34 ` How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack? Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-06 21:21 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
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