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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#38498: Fontconfig does not find fonts in non-default profiles
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:06:42 +0300
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Pierre Neidhardt (2019-12-05 11:43 +0100) wrote:

> The fontconfig package has this bit:
>
> (string-append "--with-add-fonts="
>   "~/.guix-profile/share/fonts,"
>   "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts")
>
> If I understand correctly, fonts can only be installed at the system
> level or in ~/.guix-profile.
> Is there a way to install fonts in a non-default profile?

I install fonts into a special profile.  All you need to do is edit your
"~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf" file.  Mine looks like this:


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Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <dir>~/.guix-profiles/fonts/fonts/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


This allows =E2=80=98fc-cache=E2=80=99 and similar commands to find fonts f=
rom a
non-standard directory.

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Alex

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