[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Kirill Elagin]

Why would anyone ever want to add a font to `sytemPackages`?
So, the proper way to install a font globally is to add it to `fonts.fonts`.

It should also be possible to install fonts as normal packages into your
user environment.
If something is wrong, run `fc-cache -v` and look for the dir you expect
your font to be in. You should see something like:

~~~
$HOME/.nix-profile/share/fonts/truetype: skipping, existing cache is valid:
1 fonts, 0 dirs
~~~

Then `fc-list` and `grep` for your font. If it's there, then the issue is
in your application.


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Кирилл Елагин


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Shouldn't the fonts module add defined fonts to environment.systemPackages
> then?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
>
>> >On 06/10/2014 02:29 AM, Daniel Bergey wrote:
>> >> A few weeks back I struggled with fonts, asked some questions on IRC,
>> >> and wrote up what I learned on the wiki:
>> >>
>> >> https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts
>> >>
>> >> I should add some notes on packaging fonts there, too.
>> >>
>> >> I have no idea why Cantata and chromium aren't picking up fonts,
>> though;
>> >> I don't use either one.
>> >>
>> >> cheers,
>> >> bergey
>> >>
>> >
>> >Ah, I wasn't sure whether I should be adding things to fonts.fonts,
>> >clearly I am. I should have a go and getting some extra fonts and
>> >putting them there to see if that works. Thank you for putting up the
>> >wiki page.
>> >
>> >
>> >If you guys have some knowledge that's not searchable on the web at the
>> >moment then please do make wiki pages! It's frustrating to get stuck on
>> >something and then asking on IRC for hours, waiting for mailing list
>> >replies, source diving, …, knowing that *someone* already knows!
>>
>> Well, not all knowledge is easily transferrable… Maybe the good habit to
>> start would be blindly pasting to the wiki whatever conversation was
>> deemed helpful by the asking person (because arguably the description in
>> it is already somewhat useful and it can be edited later).
>>
>>
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