From ca041ec1a3dc9319ca8ac72bbdd984f0bd36ba48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 22:39:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Adjust 'xset -fp' command to avoid symlinks.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/30655>.
Reported by Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>.
* doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): Adjust 'xset +fp' example.
---
doc/guix.texi | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 60703875f6a..abec0c08793 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1572,8 +1572,10 @@ full name of a font using XLFD (X Logical Font Description), like this:
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:
+@c Note: 'xset' does not accept symlinks so the trick below arranges to
+@c get at the real directory. See <https://bugs.gnu.org/30655>.
@example
-xset +fp `readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype`
+xset +fp $(dirname $(readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir))
@end example
@cindex @code{xlsfonts}
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