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config/graphical-session: hint to font installation for compositors
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Some Wayland compositors don't include fonts by default, so describe tersely
how they should be installed
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ethamck committed Aug 3, 2024
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# Fonts

[xbps-query(1)](../../xbps/index.md#finding-files-and-packages) can be used to
list font-related packages. Many fonts are packaged with the `font-` prefix.

To customize font display in your graphical session, you can use configurations
provided in `/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/`. To do so, create a symlink to
the relevant `.conf` file in `/etc/fonts/conf.d/`, then use
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- labwc: a window-stacking compositor, inspired by Openbox
- Qtile: a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (via qtile-wayland)

Some compositors don't depend on any [fonts](./fonts.md), so you have to install
them manually for most applications to work.

### Video drivers

Both GNOME and KDE Plasma have EGLStreams backends for Wayland, which means they
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