On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:48:48PM +0000, Christian Walther wrote: > On 06/04/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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 -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"