Re: Fonts do not work with multiple profiles (fontconfig) and a proposed workaround

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Todor Kondić <tk.code@protonmail.com> writes:

>> Hi Todor,
>>
>> Indeed, this workaround does the trick.
>> Here is my ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
>> <!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
>> <fontconfig>
>> <dir>~/.guix-extra-profiles/emacs/emacs/share/fonts</dir>
>> </fontconfig>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Packages' content is static, it is not modifier upon install, which is
>> why the default etc/fonts/fonts.conf is pointing to constant locations.
>>
>> The solution to this bug, I believe, would be to add a post-install
>> hook that generates the fonts.conf file with the right entries.
>>
>> Cheers!

I think a proper fix would be contributing a patch to fontconfig so that
it honors XDG_DATA_DIRS to lookup its fonts.

Any takers?

Maxim