Hello, Marco van Hulten <ma...@hulten.org> skribis:
> Ludovic— > > Je 1 mrt 17:52 skribis Ludovic: >> 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: > > More or less, but it is fonts.dir that points to the right location > though we need the base dir of that, so the patch must be: > > > 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 $(dirname $(readlink -f > ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir)) > @end example Actually commit 07ec349229 that I just pushed fixes this very line. So I guess we’re done? Thanks, Ludo’.
