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

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Feng Shu" <address@hidden> skribis:

> I use guix to build my own version of emacs-snapshot and sawfish, and
> find some integrate-issue, and suggest add a FAQ to deal with,
> for example:
>
> 1. How to use fonts which is outside guix?
> 2. How to use fonts config which is outside guix?
> 3. How to use gtk or qt theme similar with outside guix?
> 4. ....

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.

Could you report about it?

I don’t know about #3.  Anyone?

Thanks,
Ludo’.