Re: [Texmacs-dev] appimages

[Giovanni Piredda]

On 28.11.20 18:23, TeXmacs wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 01:08:52PM +0100, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
> > A possible downside of an AppImage is that the software is not
> > available from the launcher. I do not know if the tools proposed in
> > the AppImage documentation website work well.
> In that case, its advantage over the static binary packages is only very minor.
> Just the launch process might be a bit simpler for certain users.
If the "static binary packages" are for example these

https://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.16-C.tar.gz

quite surprisingly I have a TeXmacs icon available in the Xubuntu launcher.

I *think* that the only thing I did was setting

export TEXMACS_PATH=[installation directory]
export PATH=$TEXMACS_PATH/bin:$PATH

in /etc/profile.d/texmacs.sh

But I am not confident that I remember correctly.

The static package on Xubuntu 20.10 (and previous releases) creates a 
fontconfig directory in each directory that I use to startup TeXmacs 
from. There has been a discussion on the mailing list on this topic

(" Fontconfig created upon every start" by Fan Zhang, on 12.07.19), but 
I did not have the patience to read through the solutions; I am starting 
TeXmacs up just from a few directories as a workaround.

G.


> Best wishes, --Joris
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