From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: guix installed Emacs Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:10:17 +0300 Message-ID: <87potpj4w6.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1arMFB-0001mt-Km for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 05:10:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1arMF8-0003Kk-E9 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 05:10:21 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-x241.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::241]:33241) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1arMF8-0003Ke-6A for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 05:10:18 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-x241.google.com with SMTP id p64so19691155lfg.0 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2016 02:10:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (catonano@gmail.com's message of "Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:48:57 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Catonano Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Catonano (2016-04-16 01:48 +0300) wrote: > I installed Emacs with guix. > > But the experience provided by the guix provided Emacs is not on par > with the one provided by the Fedora host rpovided Emacs > > The menus and the buttons are slightly different but most important > is the minibuffer: It's a bit too small and hard to read. > > Also the color in the guix provided Emacs is less bright > > Because it's difficult to explain in words, I made a small screencast > showing the difference > > The Emacs on the left side of the monitor is the Fedora one. The > Emacs on the right side is the guix one. > > The audio is brutally cut, I'm sorry, I made my best with the > screencast > > Why are they different ? They share the same .emacs.d folder. > > There must be something in the underneath X related libraries. > > Could anything be done to improve the experience of the guix provided > Emacs ? As Jean pointed most likely the problem with fonts happens because Emacs from Guix doesn't use fonts from your Fedora font dirs. Installing required fonts in your user profile will probably fix this issue. You can do it like this: guix package -i font-liberation font-dejavu ... The problem with less bright colors is very surprising for me. Apparently it is the same "custom theme" in both emacs-es, but it visibly differs. My only guess is: the theme you use defines different colors depending on a "class of terminal"/"number of available colors". But it's probably a bad guess, since it is the same gui emacs in both cases. What theme is it? Some derivation of "zenburn" maybe. Could you point to its source code please? Do you get 752 after evaluating this: "M-: (length (defined-colors))" ? You can press "C-u C-x =" on any fontified character and look what face it is and compare how it is customized/themed for both emacs-es (also with "C-u C-x =" you can see what font is used by Fedora's Emacs). -- Alex