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kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,394

[SOLVED] fontconfig rule only works in deprecated location (?)

Arch wiki says:

Note: Configuration files and directories: ~/.fonts.conf/, ~/.fonts.conf.d/ and ~/.fontconfig/*.cache-* are deprecated since fontconfig 2.10.1 (upstream commit) and will not be read by default in the future versions of the package.

I've that in my home:

# file ~/.fonts.conf.d
/home/koko/.fonts.conf.d: symbolic link to /home/koko/.config/fontconfig/conf.d

And there, i've a particular rule that enables autohint for liberation mono:

# fc-match --verbose "Liberation Mono" | grep -i autohint
        autohint: True(w)

Right, but here is what happens if i remove the sylink:

# unlink ~/.fonts.conf.d

[15:45:09]  cd ~
# fc-match --verbose "Liberation Mono" | grep -i autohint
        autohint: False(w)

My fontconfig rule file is in place where it should be, the non-deprecated location:

# file ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-liberation-mono-qtfix.conf
/home/koko/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-liberation-mono-qtfix.conf: XML 1.0 document, UTF-8 Unicode text

And it IS PARSED, because fontconfig gives me an error if i corrupt it:

# echo "garbage" >> ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-liberation-mono-qtfix.conf
# fc-match --verbose "Liberation Mono" | grep -i autohint
Fontconfig error: "/home/koko/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-liberation-mono-qtfix.conf", line 36: junk after document element
        autohint: False(w)

What is the explaination? My actual workaround is to use deprecated locations!

Last edited by kokoko3k (2016-10-12 14:23:03)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] fontconfig rule only works in deprecated location (?)

Stashed by some other rule?
Seems ~/.fonts.conf is accessed last, so it would likely trump everything, but ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf is read after ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d is accessed. ("strace fc-match foo 2>&1 | grep conf | grep $USER")

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kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: [SOLVED] fontconfig rule only works in deprecated location (?)

Nice catch, and nice to use strace to get the parsing order.
Why on earth didn't i try it? I even use strace for making coffee in the morning.

Thanks seth.

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