Hi, On 22 February 2017 at 21:22, Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> wrote: > I put a picture on line > http://imgur.com/a/K1yry > > the fonts on my screen are not that slender, they are awkward, ugly, I don't > know > > What can I do to make them better ? Which font should I install and how can > I instruct the Gnome desktop to use them ? > > In Fedora there's a thing called "Fedy" that automagically does a list of > things and one of them is making fonts smooth > > But I have no idea how it does that, it's a cute tiny window and I just > click a few buttons in it. > > So any suggestion is welcomed > > Thanks in advance
I'm only using Guix on a *foreign* distro and for now have only Source Code Pro <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/fonts.scm#n923> (SCP) installed primarily for use within Emacs. I initially followed the instructions here <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#X11-Fonts> from the manual installing fontconfig and the suggested font packages (as well as SCP) but found that the SCP despite being configured for use in my init.el file was not being used. In fact, the font in Emacs was ugly and my (powerline) modeline was not rendered correctly. To me it seemed the various font packages were conflicting with each other. I subsequently rolled back to remove all font packages except for SCP. I kept Fontconfig though. This still did not improve the situation much and in fact Emacs was using fonts which I had not installed - perhaps it was accessing those available on my foreign distro or some are included in building the emacs package for Guix? I don't know. In any case, I then discovered this thread: <goog_1169838045> http://guix-devel.gnu.narkive.com/xCDp7nhI/patch-gnu-emacs-use-libotf and this one just now https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00477.html which suggests running 'fc-cache -f' or 'fc-cache -vfr' (from fontconfig) to refresh the font cache. Upon doing this, my issues were resolved and SCP was being correctly used by Emacs. If you're on a foreign distro too you may already have fontconfig installed for that distro so you may have to explicitly run the version installed with Guix. For any unicode characters not supported by SCP, they are either not displayed or Emacs uses some other font although I don't understand from where it gets these other fonts. HTH, Niall
