[Nix-dev] Using fonts with X terribly broken?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 10/04/14 08:18, Kirill Elagin wrote:

> I've glanced through all the fonts stuff in NixOS modules and it looks like there is
> something wrong. That is, there are, basically, to different sets of fonts:
> ordinary fonts
> and X fonts. If you add and ordinary font to `config.fonts.fonts` it won't be
> added to
> the X config, because, most likely, it won't have a `fonts.dir` file. Basically,
> this means
> that almost no modern beautiful font can be registered within X server.

Registering fonts with the X server has been obsolete for at least ten years,
applications should use fontconfig to find fonts and render them client-side.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/