sirgazil,

sirgazil wrote:
> I installed Scribus from Guix in a foreign distro and it looks 
> weird
> when I launch it. See these screenshots for example:
>
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/scribus-154-splash-2019-04-22.png
>
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/scribus-154-dialog-2019-04-22.png
>
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/scribus-154-main-2019-04-22.png

Smells very much like high-DPI pixel doubling gone haywire.

> It looks pixelated, as if zoomed in, and some parts of the 
> interface
> appear clipped. Anyone gets this same behavior?

I can't reproduce this on Guix System (git commit fa619007) 
without a desktop environment.  What kind of environment have you?

> I'm using the following Guix and Scribus:
>
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) ffc8ab75f10ecaaf52cdc38f5846e9af8e2dadd5
>
> $ which scribus
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/sirgazil/guix-profile/bin/scribus

I'm not familiar with Guix on foreign distroes but would expect 
something in ~/.guix-profile.  That might be a Guix System thing 
though.

For future reference

  $ readlink -m `which scribus`

might also be useful.

Kind regards,

T G-R