From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 8 00:27:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91DF16A403 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:27:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3627413C469 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:27:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l380Shio010327; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l380Sh0i010326; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:28:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Christian Walther Message-ID: <20070408002842.GA10152@thought.org> References: <20070406234531.GA704@thought.org> <14989d6e0704071048x64167e89s595fa6869f2a89e8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0704071048x64167e89s595fa6869f2a89e8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Fontconfig question... . X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:27:29 -0000 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:48:48PM +0000, Christian Walther wrote: > On 06/04/07, Gary Kline wrote: > > When I fire up mozilla, firefox, OO-2.1.0, and whatever else, > > I'll see this to stdout: > > > > > > pe 16:37 [5433] mozilla > > Fontconfig warning: no elements found. Check > > configuration. > > Fontconfig warning: adding > > /var/db/fontconfig > > Fontconfig warning: adding ~/.fontconfig > > > > 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 elements found. Check configuration. Fontconfig warning: adding /var/db/fontconfig Fontconfig warning: adding ~/.fontconfig 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix