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

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 05:34:11PM +0400, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> 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.

There are plenty of X programs that don't use fontconfig, isn't it?

If you use X over network, client side font rendering is also slower.

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