Re: appimages
Giovanni Piredda <[email protected]>
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On 28.11.20 18:23, TeXmacs wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 01:08:52PM +0100, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
>> A possible downside of an AppImage is that the software is not
>> available from the launcher. I do not know if the tools proposed in
>> the AppImage documentation website work well.
> In that case, its advantage over the static binary packages is only very minor.
> Just the launch process might be a bit simpler for certain users.
>
If the "static binary packages" are for example these
https://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.16-C.tar.gz
quite surprisingly I have a TeXmacs icon available in the Xubuntu launcher.
I *think* that the only thing I did was setting
export TEXMACS_PATH=[installation directory]
export PATH=$TEXMACS_PATH/bin:$PATH
in /etc/profile.d/texmacs.sh
But I am not confident that I remember correctly.
The static package on Xubuntu 20.10 (and previous releases) creates a
fontconfig directory in each directory that I use to startup TeXmacs
from. There has been a discussion on the mailing list on this topic
(" Fontconfig created upon every start" by Fan Zhang, on 12.07.19), but
I did not have the patience to read through the solutions; I am starting
TeXmacs up just from a few directories as a workaround.
G.
> Best wishes, --Joris
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