Subject: [bug#53257] [PATCH] gnu: foot: expose terminfo dirs via native-search-paths

From: florhizome <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:02:54 +0000

Hi all,
I noticed foot did not behave normally whenever content would overflow it's current dimensions. when I installed alacritty in the same profile, this was fixed. Turned out, alacritty's declaration has a native-search-path field entry that fixed foot! Why not just search-paths, I can't tell. This might apply to further terminal emulators (kitty had problems starting emacs in some contexts for me but I would need to test that more), but for now, just foot! 

* gnu/packages/terminals.scm (foot) [native-search-paths]: Add
search-path-specification for terminfo dirs
---
 gnu/packages/terminals.scm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
index a4fe97776d..1eb54dac80 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
@@ -849,6 +849,10 @@ (define-public foot
            pkg-config scdoc wayland-protocols))
     (inputs
      (list fcft libxkbcommon wayland))
+    (native-search-paths 
+     (list (search-path-specification
+            (variable "TERMINFO_DIRS")
+            (files '("share/terminfo")))))
     (synopsis "Wayland-native terminal emulator")
     (description
      "@command{foot} is a terminal emulator for systems using the Wayland
-- 
2.34.0