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How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack?
From: |
Jorge P. de Morais Neto |
Subject: |
How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack? |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Jan 2020 13:50:50 -0300 |
Hi. I use an updated Guix atop Debian buster on an x86-64 notebook. I
had font problems in GNU Emacs. I took hours to recognize them as such
and find the cause: Emacs was not using the fonts from Debian in
`/usr/share/fonts'. I then worked around the problem by symlinking
/usr/share/fonts to `~/.local/share/fonts' and invoking `fc-cache'
(don't remember the exact parameters I used). Then additional fonts
appeared in the output of `fc-list' and were indeed available to Emacs.
Two questions:
1. Could this symlink cause problems for Debian applications?
2. Why does not Guix `fc-cache' look in `/usr/share/fonts'?
Regards
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- How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack?,
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