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Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux distrib
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux distribution. |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2015 16:33:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
"Feng Shu" <address@hidden> skribis:
> I use guix to build my own version of emacs-snapshot and sawfish, and
> find some integrate-issue, and suggest add a FAQ to deal with,
> for example:
>
> 1. How to use fonts which is outside guix?
> 2. How to use fonts config which is outside guix?
> 3. How to use gtk or qt theme similar with outside guix?
> 4. ....
Good questions! I drafted a section on how to use Guix on another
GNU/Linux distro, and these are the typical things that need to be
answered in that section:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00282.html
Regarding fonts, most GUIs do X11 client-side rendering and rely on
Fontconfig. So to get fonts working in a GTK+ or Qt application, for
instance, you need to install packages such as ‘gs-fonts’ and
‘font-dejavu’; then you need to ‘guix package -i fontconfig’ and run
‘fc-cache -f’ to update the font cache. I suspect this may have the
property of unregistering fonts that were installed on the host distro.
Could you report about it?
I don’t know about #3. Anyone?
Thanks,
Ludo’.