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xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marco van Hulten <marco <at> hulten.org>
Cc: 30655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30655: closed (Re: bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink
 to font path)
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:41:13 +0100

Hi,

Marco van Hulten <marco <at> hulten.org> skribis:

> Je  2 mrt 12:46 skribis GNU:
>> > diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
>> > index 24db16761..35221ff94 100644
>> > --- a/doc/guix.texi
>> > +++ b/doc/guix.texi
>> > @@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ To be able to use such full names for the
>> > TrueType fonts installed in your Guix profile, you need to extend the
>> > font path of the X server: 
>> >  @example
>> > -xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
>> > +xset +fp $(dirname $(readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir))
>> >  @end example  
>> 
>> Actually commit 07ec349229 that I just pushed fixes this very line.  So
>> I guess we’re done?
>
> I don't think so, because I just did a 'git pull', and found that the
> old patch had been applied (the one with `readlink... that doesn't
> work, instead of the above with $(dirname $(readlink...) which works.

Oops, really fixed now (will push shortly.)

> Apropos, how often are the HTML pages generated from the repository and
> put online?

At each new release.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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