Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:28:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fontconfig question... . Message-ID: <20070408002842.GA10152@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0704071048x64167e89s595fa6869f2a89e8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070406234531.GA704@thought.org> <14989d6e0704071048x64167e89s595fa6869f2a89e8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:48:48PM +0000, Christian Walther wrote:
> On 06/04/07, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > When I fire up mozilla, firefox, OO-2.1.0, and whatever else,
> > I'll see this to stdout:
> >
> >
> > pe 16:37 <tao> [5433] mozilla
> > Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check
> > configuration.
> > Fontconfig warning: adding
> > <cachedir>/var/db/fontconfig</cachedir>
> > Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>
> >
> > I've got a seriously old, severely cheep CD with 1500 fonts, plus
> > hundreds more I've gleaned that are free. I've clicked around on
> > firefox and mozilla but have no idea how to find, much less:
> > "Check configuration."
> >
> > I've read the html in /usr/X11R6/share/doc/fonconfig, but don't
> > see any {/usr/local}/etc/fonts directory. [???]
>
> You might be in need to issue a "fc-cache" command.
> The command builds cache files that are read by fontconfig. Maybe they
> are missing from your system.
> I had such an issue a long time ago, so I might be wrong here. But
> fc-cache just needs a few seconds to execute so it won't hurt. And it
> won't break anything. ;-)
>
> >
> > Can anybody clue me in?
> >
> > gary
>
> HTH
Can't tell yet! Doing an ls -ltR in /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts shows
that the files were touched in late March. Doing
# fc-cache
yields:
root@tao:/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts# !501
fc-cache
Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration.
Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>/var/db/fontconfig</cachedir>
Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>
So I'll check the config file. Do you know if I can add my
collection of free fonts? and if so, how? (It's been ten years
since I messed with the font stuff!) FWIW, yesterday I used my
OO wizard from 2.1 to install a bunch of fonts. It's really not
``critical-path'' to get this working, but it'd be K00L ...
gary
> Christian
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