From 1a3e6b15badbd227516c7527e8cdb6095a39031b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Kost Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:12:33 +0300 Subject: doc: Describe how to make X server find TrueType fonts. * doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): Document how to add TrueType fonts installed in a Guix profile to the X server font path. --- doc/guix.texi | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 393efab6e4..9703c72ff5 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014, 2016 Andreas Enge@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* @@ -1208,6 +1209,24 @@ for Chinese languages: guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn @end example +Older programs such as @command{xterm} do not use Fontconfig and instead +rely on server-side font rendering. Such programs require to specify a +full name of a font using XLFD (X Logical Font Description), like this: + +@example +-*-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-1 +@end example + +To be able to use such full names for the TrueType fonts installed in +your Guix profile, you need to extend the font path of the X server: + +@example +xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype +@end example + +After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package) +to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there. + @subsection X.509 Certificates The @code{nss-certs} package provides X.509 certificates, which allow -- cgit v1.2.3