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70-yes-bitmaps.conf


From: Andreas Reuleaux
Subject: 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:09:51 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

I want bitmap fonts in X!

On my debian system this means:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -f -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf  /etc/fonts/conf.d
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Then I get to chose for example LucidaTypewriter as a font
in various applications (Firefox, Emacs) etc, and of course there
are other nice bitmap fonts too, and - old-school again: I often find them
clearer/easier to read than modern anti-aliased ones.

Now on my new guix system I try to do the same:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
cd .guix-profile/etc/fonts/conf.d/
ls -lh 69-unifont.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 105 Jan  1  1970 69-unifont.conf -> 
/gnu/store/k6zs6zabhfybh6aphc4988wc2fsyk5hh-fontconfig-2.13.1/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


and I don't want to type that
/gnu/store/k6zs6zabhfybh6aphc4988wc2fsyk5hh-fontconfig-2.13.1... thing,
thus dirname, and readlink to the rescue:


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
echo $(dirname $(readlink -f 69-unifont.conf))
/gnu/store/k6zs6zabhfybh6aphc4988wc2fsyk5hh-fontconfig-2.13.1/share/fontconfig/conf.avail
echo $(dirname $(readlink -f 69-unifont.conf))/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
/gnu/store/k6zs6zabhfybh6aphc4988wc2fsyk5hh-fontconfig-2.13.1/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


but...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ln -s $(dirname $(readlink -f 69-unifont.conf))/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .
ln: failed to create symbolic link './70-yes-bitmaps.conf': Read-only file 
system
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

on guix this is a read-only file system.  :-(

And the guix manual is not all too verbose about this in section 10.8.6
(X Window, p 254) - or at least: I haven't found the relevant section,
how set such a link / configuration.

Thanks in advance.
  -A



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