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Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux distrib
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux distribution. |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2015 23:26:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Please keep the list Cc’d.
Feng Shu <address@hidden> skribis:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Good questions! I drafted a section on how to use Guix on another
>> GNU/Linux distro, and these are the typical things that need to be
>> answered in that section:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00282.html
>>
>> Regarding fonts, most GUIs do X11 client-side rendering and rely on
>> Fontconfig. So to get fonts working in a GTK+ or Qt application, for
>> instance, you need to install packages such as ‘gs-fonts’ and
>> ‘font-dejavu’; then you need to ‘guix package -i fontconfig’ and run
>> ‘fc-cache -f’ to update the font cache. I suspect this may have the
>> property of unregistering fonts that were installed on the host distro.
>
> I find a more simple tip:
>
> ln -s /usr/share/fonts ~/fonts/usr-share-fonts
I fail to see why this would have any effect, but maybe there’s another
piece of your setup that I’m missing. Could you explain?
Thanks,
Ludo’.