Please keep the list Cc’d. Feng Shu <tuma...@163.com> skribis:
> l...@gnu.org (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’.
