GNU bug report logs - #30655
xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Marco van Hulten <marco <at> hulten.org>

Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Royce Strange <royball <at> disroot.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Marco van Hulten <marco <at> hulten.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:54:29 +0100

Hello,

When I follow the manual at
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts ,
I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm
trying to add it:


gast <at> graviton ~$ xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype
xset:  bad font path element (#0), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
gast <at> graviton ~$ ls -l ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir 
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 84 Jan  1  1970 /home/gast/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir -> /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
gast <at> graviton ~$ xset +fp /gnu/store/5kp6hj8mk6pgfl4x3cgabl7z379jyyrl-fonts-dir/share/fonts/truetype


The last command exits with code 0.  Apparently, xset(1) does not want
me to add symlink(2)s that point to valid directories.

—Marco
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