* Quick hack to enable fontconfig to find fonts. We look in the

default profile, in the user's profile, and in ~/.fonts.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7709

system/etc.nix

@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ import ../helpers/make-etc.nix {
       target = "profile";
     }
 
+    { # Configuration file for fontconfig used to locate
+      # (X11) client-rendered fonts.
+      source = ./etc/fonts/fonts.conf;
+      target = "fonts/fonts.conf";
+    }
+
   ]
 
   # LDAP configuration.

system/etc/fonts/fonts.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+
+<fontconfig>
+
+  <dir>/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
+  <dir>~/.nix-profile/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
+  <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
+  
+</fontconfig>

system/etc/profile.sh

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ export MODULE_DIR=@kernel@/lib/modules
 export NIX_CONF_DIR=/nix/etc/nix
 export PAGER=less
 export TZ=@timeZone@
+export FONTCONFIG_FILE=/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
 
 PROMPT_COLOR="1;31m"
 PS1="\n\[\033[$PROMPT_COLOR\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "