On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:09, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:32, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:59:40PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:16, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > from man fc-cache:
> > NAME
> > fc-cache, fonts.cache - create an index of FreeType font files
> > in a directory
> >
> > It's normally run when you add new fonts to your system. Of course if you
> > use kde's font control panel or something similar, it runs fc-cache for
> > you. It's part of X & lives in /usr/X11R6/bin/
> >
> > When you install linux-base, is installs a linux version too
> > (under /usr/compat/linux), but it appears to use the FBSD configuration
> > somehow, since running fc-cache fixes the cache for linux apps as well as
> > native ones.
>
> Thanks for the datapoint. Where do I chdir to to run fc-cache?
> (There seem to be font files scattered all over the place.)
>
> gary
You don't have to chdir anywhere, just run it.
The man pages says:
If directory arguments are not given, fc-cache uses each directory in
the current font configuration. Each directory is scanned for font
files readable by FreeType. A cache is created which contains proper-
ties of each font and the associated filename. This cache is used to
speed application startup when using the fontconfig library.
So it must look at your X config file & finds out where the font directories
are from that.Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc
pgpBVM7OM2WE9.pgp
Description: PGP signature
