This bug still exists in Natty beta 2. To reiterate, here are exact
steps and expected vs observed behavior:
Preconditions: /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf is present and the
fontconfig cache has been populated with "fc-cache -s".
1. Create a user-specific ~/.fonts.conf containing the following to
enable bitmap fonts for the current user:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<selectfont>
<acceptfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
</pattern>
</acceptfont>
</selectfont>
</fontconfig>
2. Optionally do "fc-cache -f" (the following results are the same both
with and without this step).
3. Try "fc-list fixed". Expected: A number of entries, including
"Fixed:style=Regular". Observed: No output. (A more real-world severe
effect is that gnome-terminal does not use the fixed font even though
configured for it.)
4. sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
5. sudo fc-cache -f -s (note that -f is necessary)
6. Now "fc-list fixed" returns a number of entries, as expected.
7. sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
8. "fc-list fixed" still returns a number of entries, as expected due to
~/.fonts.conf.
9. rm ~/.fonts.conf
10. "fc-list fixed" returns nothing, as expected. This shows that the system
setting takes effect properly in lack of a user local override.
The bug is present already in step 3. I believe the remaining steps
suggest that the problem is that "fc-cache -s" takes <rejectfont> rules
into account when populating the global cache, which is incorrect since
the fonts thus left out won't be available when a user local
<acceptfont> takes precedence. Also, refreshing the user-local cache
through "fc-cache -f" has no effect.
Side note: This is a quite old bug by now. I've grown used to do sudo rm
/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf after every upgrade, so it's only a
mild annoyance to me personally. The full scope of the problem is
probably larger though.
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110358
Title:
Updating /var/cache/fontconfig with no-bitmaps disables bitmap fonts
also for users that enable them
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