With further research: The problem seems to be (near as I can tell) that
emacs (through fontconfig) was looking for fonts in the standard X11 font
directory, but no such directory exists, because the host system does not
have X11. I was able to resolve this by using nix-env to install some font
pac
Hi. I just finished installing emacs-24.2. The graphical (gtk-based)
version starts fine; however, the text in all the menus (including the
tiles) is garbled (more specifically, replaced by empty box characters).
The error given one the command line is:
quote:
(process:27651): Gtk-WARNING
;; Announcement. -*- scheme -*-
(define guix
(package
(name "guix")
(version "0.1") ; first alpha release
(source
(origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz"
--On 14 janvier 2013 22:43:39 + Sander van der Burg - EWI
wrote:
> It's possible to use the Nix package manager on Mac OS X. I'm using it
> quite frequently these days at work (although I don't own any Apple
> devices myself :-) ). However, Mac support is less mature and the
> packages colle
