Re: Suggest add FAQ documents about integrating with other linux distribution.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Please keep the list Cc’d.

Feng Shu <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I find a more simple tip:
>
> ln -s /usr/share/fonts ~/fonts/usr-share-fonts

I fail to see why this would have any effect, but maybe there’s another
piece of your setup that I’m missing.  Could you explain?

Thanks,
Ludo’.