On 2022/08/05 18:46, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > Now, after applying your patch, setting FONTCONFIG_FILE and > FONTCONFIG_PATH to my home config dir and file, xterm loads the xft font > correctly but the error appears again. I don't understand why since it > seemed to me to see in the code (main.c) that home directory as well as > the xdg direcories are also unveiled.
ktrace might give some insight into what's happening. This code in xterm is a bit best-effort because it's not hooked into the fontconfig code; so it can only really go for likely locations rather than following the parsed file (for include dirs etc).
