[Xquartz-dev] minor fontconfig configuration issues

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Wed Jun 4 22:48:26 PDT 2008


Please file a big about this or I might forget.

Thanks,
Jeremy

On Jun 4, 2008, at 19:01, Martin Otte wrote:

> I have installed X11-2.3.0_rc3, and I've noticed that fontconfig does
> not see any of my local fonts in ~/Library/Fonts. This was probably
> true in earlier version too.
>
> The relevant lines of /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/fonts.conf are:
>
> <!-- Font directory list -->
>
> 	<dir>/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
> 	<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
> 	<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
>
> <!--
>
> and in /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/conf.d/05-osx-fonts.conf:
>
> <fontconfig>
> 	<dir>/System/Library/Fonts</dir>
> 	<dir>/Library/Fonts</dir>
> </fontconfig>
>
> So either the ~/.fonts entry of fonts.conf should be replaced by ~/
> Library/Fonts, or ~/.fonts should be removed and ~/Library/Fonts
> added to 5-osx-fonts.conf.
>
> Also, since /usr/X11R6 is a symbolic link to /usr/X11, all of the X11
> fonts are being cached twice. The /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts entry
> should probably be deleted.
>
> Otherwise, I haven't had any issues with 2.3.0-rc3 that haven't been
> mentioned previously.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xquartz-dev mailing list
> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev



More information about the Xquartz-dev mailing list