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 ? Thanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSr6Rs6R1a4&feature=youtu.be