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xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path |
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Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:54:29 +0100 |
Hello,
When I follow the manual at
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts
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I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm
trying to add it:
address@hidden ~$ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
xset: bad font path element (#0), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
address@hidden ~$ ls -l ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 84 Jan 1 1970
/home/gast/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir ->
/gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
address@hidden ~$ xset +fp
/gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype
The last command exits with code 0. Apparently, xset(1) does not want
me to add symlink(2)s that point to valid directories.
—Marco
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Re: bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path |
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Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:45:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Marco van Hulten <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic—
>
> Je 1 mrt 17:52 skribis Ludovic:
>> Marco van Hulten <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>> > When I follow the manual at
>> > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts
>> > ,
>> > I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm
>> > trying to add it:
>> >
>> >
>> > address@hidden ~$ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
>> > xset: bad font path element (#0), possible causes are:
>> > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>> > Directory missing fonts.dir
>> > Incorrect font server address or syntax
>> > address@hidden ~$ ls -l ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
>> > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 84 Jan 1 1970
>> > /home/gast/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir ->
>> > /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
>> > address@hidden ~$ xset +fp
>> > /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype
>> >
>> >
>> > The last command exits with code 0. Apparently, xset(1) does not want
>> > me to add symlink(2)s that point to valid directories.
>>
>> Would this be a good fix:
>
> More or less, but it is fonts.dir that points to the right location
> though we need the base dir of that, so the patch must be:
>
>
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 24db16761..35221ff94 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ To be able to use such full names for the
> TrueType fonts installed in your Guix profile, you need to extend the
> font path of the X server:
> @example
> -xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
> +xset +fp $(dirname $(readlink -f
> ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir))
> @end example
Actually commit 07ec349229 that I just pushed fixes this very line. So
I guess we’re done?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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