Oleg Pykhalov (2017-11-28 10:14 +0300) wrote: > Hello John, > > John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > >> In GuixSD: >> >> guix package -i xterm strace >> strace xterm >> >> xterm starts as it should, however observe many failed calls similar to: >> >> open("/gnu/store/b484nvn9nnr3ddclpz2fma9yxmimg2jj-fontconfig-2.11.94/lib/libXdmcp.so.6", >> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) >> >> >> Now in the xterm, hold down Ctrl and press any mouse button. >> The xterm aborts with the following messages: >> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font >> Error: Aborting: no font found > > I solved this issue by: > > - Install a font-misc-misc as Mike Hunt from Gentoo forum suggests¹: > > $ guix package -i font-misc-misc > > - From "(guix) Application Setup"²: > > $ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/X11/misc
Just to mention: I have font-misc-misc and some other fonts in my profile with the Xorg font path set accordingly. Apparently, that's why I didn't experience this bug :-) -- Alex