Hi Marco,
Marco van Hulten <ma...@hulten.org> 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:
>
>
> gast@graviton ~$ 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
> gast@graviton ~$ 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
> gast@graviton ~$ 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:
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 `readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype`
@end example
@cindex @code{xlsfonts}
?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
