Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Todor Kondić]

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On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:18, Todor Kondić <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz address@hidden wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
> >
> > > I solved it by either,
> > >
> > > -   installing bunch of new fonts
> > > -   running fc-cache -f
> > > -   re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> > > -   hash guix
> > >
> > > or some combination of the above.
> >
> > Sourcing the profile would define XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is required for
> > font display. Installing fonts and running fc-cache may have provided
> > fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts, which is part of XDG_DATA_DIRS.
> > This is a known issue (which I experience when running Icecat in a
> > container) that hopefully can be addressed by someone who knows a bit
> > more than me about the proper way to fix the problem. :) It's a problem
> > for people on foreign distros.
> >
> > Mike Gerwitz
> > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
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> > https://mikegerwitz.com
>
> ... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you 
> were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; 
> do you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the 
> variable?



My workaround at the moment is to create a bash script,
#!/bin/bash
XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share" icecat "$@"

called icecat and residing earlier in the path than the real icecat.