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

[Kirill Elagin]

That's true, but there still might be packages that need this.

This time, I've found that there is a patch for dmenu that enables Xft
(and this patch is actually in nixpkgs, one just has to enable it). So,
probably, you are right, and that's really no worth it.


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Кирилл Елагин


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>wrote:

> 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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