On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Mark Brethen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I’m using XQuartz 2.7.8 on Mac OS 10.10.5. When XQuartz is launched, I’ve
> noticed messages in the console such as
> "org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[60887]: Directory missing fonts.dir”.
> Where is the X11 fonts directory located and how do I set this variable?
>
It's not a variable, and it's harmless.
XQuartz adds a number of system font directories and (if it exists) your
user-installed font directory to the X11 font path. In those directories
that are empty or have only Apple-style font bundles, no fonts.dir (which
should have been called fonts.index; blame X11) exists in them and you will
get that message --- but if you later install fonts, the next time you
start XQuartz it will find and index them.
Having these in the initial font path is cheap; that message is xset
indicating that the directory doesn't have a font index and won't actually
be added to the font path. (The message could be better, certainly.) x.org
creates a number of font directories that will be empty by default and are
in that default font path (/opt/X11/lib/X11/fonts{TTF,OTF,Type1} come to
mind; you can also see this on Linux under /usr/lib/X11/fonts) and there
can be a warning in the log for those at X11 startup.
This is all done by /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/10-fontdir.sh on OS X.
--
brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
[email protected] [email protected]
unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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