* Siard wrote on 2013-12-11 at 17:24 (+0100): > Mathias Bauer: > > Also, fonts-conf(5) contains an example user configuration file > > ~/.fonts.conf, so that your font files (.ttf, .otf) may remain in > > their original directories and need not to be mixed together in > > *one* of the directories mentioned above by Siard. > > "Original directories"? We're talking about locally installed > fonts here, living beyond the package manager's realm.
Yes, so do I. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. My ~/.fonts.conf lists several directories: --------------------snip-------------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> <dir>~/fonts/sourcecodepro</dir> <dir>~/fonts/sourcesanspro</dir> <!-- and some more --> </fontconfig> --------------------snip-------------------- Each font family I use, consists of serveral font files, e.g. 6 files for Adobe SourceCodePro, 13 files for Adobe SourceSansPro, etc. To keep things clear I simply don't want to put all these files into one single directory, neither into ~/.fonts (for a single user) nor into /usr/local/share/fonts (for all local users). I left them in separate directories which I called "original directories" in my previous mail and adapted ~/.fonts.conf accordingly. Sorry for the confusion. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/05/msg00148.html > "For locally installed, system wide fonts, /usr/local/share/fonts > looks like the most suitable place." > > BTW, /usr/local/share/fonts is mentioned in my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Yes, here it is, too, and there's no need to alter this file. The above link is a little bit misleading. For short: Don't run fc-cache as normal user. You don't want to have in ~/.fontconfig a mixture of cache files for all the system font directories /usr/share/fonts/* with those for the user font directories specified in your ~/.fonts.conf. The former ones are located in /var/cache/fontconfig (you don't have write permissions for it) and are handled by the package management hooks. You can simply remove ~/.fontconfig completely and let it rebuild automatically. To initiate this rebuild just now, run, e.g. fc-list. Regards, Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131211173040.ga14...@gmx.org