fontconfig folder in home directory

manuelschneid3r · 2015-04-28 12:20:45

Somehow this folder is created in my homedirectory containing .cache-[[:digit:]] files. Does anybody experience the same and maybe know why ?

karol · 2015-04-28 13:26:48

I'm using fontconfig-infinality-ultimate and I don't have any such folder.
Does it (or the files therein) belong to any package?

Edit: See the note: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … figuration

Last edited by karol (2015-04-28 13:27:56)

manuelschneid3r · 2015-04-28 13:49:05

Really I have no clue I guess the files in there are caches of fonts, the content is binary and the names are weird numbers following a suffix build out of "cache", a hyphen and a number.

karol · 2015-04-28 16:09:47

See the note: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … figuration
Not sure what do you want more.

manuelschneid3r · 2015-04-28 21:02:05

The proplem is that it should be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/ but is in $XDG_HOME/fontconfig/. Since I deleted it the last time it did not come back. Somehow solved. Anyway thank you for your help

karol · 2015-04-29 20:44:59

Did you properly set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ?

$ echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
/home/karol/.config

manuelschneid3r · 2015-04-30 08:32:44

No they are not set. I just googled and found this:

Yes, that's correct. They aren't supposed to be set by default (it was
a bug that they were). Your scripts/applications that use those
variables should be checking for their existence and falling back to a
default unless you're sure that you're setting them manually yourself.

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 32980.html

Somehow it did not appear since then. I guess a malcoded(, meanwhile updated) peace of software was the cuplrit.

Last edited by manuelschneid3r (2015-04-30 08:33:06)

karol · 2015-04-30 17:39:04

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xd … irectories

It you consider the issue resolved, please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

cedricmc · 2015-06-08 17:16:16

I have the same problem, which is an old one as you can see here. If $XDG_{CACHE,CONFIG}_HOME was not to be set, then a calling application should default to $XDG_HOME/.{cache,config}. The problem here is that it seems you, as I, have an application that is using deprecated defaults.

So, my question is, does anyone know how to know who (which program) created those files/folder? We could then inform the proper developers. I am myself suspicious about Emacs, (Xe)LaTeX and/or Evince.

Cheers.

Last edited by cedricmc (2015-06-08 17:23:59)

manuelschneid3r · 2015-06-08 18:12:03

Just for info: I dont use Emacs and (Xe)LaTeX. Which is just a hint, maybe more than on app use deprecated folders.

cedricmc · 2015-06-11 23:03:44

I've realized that I also have a file in my home folder, missfont.log, with the following content:

mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 lams4
mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 lams3
mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 lams2
mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 lams1

and issuing

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pacman -Qo /bin/mktexpk 
/usr/bin/mktexpk is owned by texlive-bin 2014.34260-8

Still, @manuelschneid3r is certainly right and more than one app must be using deprecated folders/variables.

manuelschneid3r · 2015-06-12 11:34:51

Well setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME by hand (creating file /etc/profile.d/base-dirs.sh containing "export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config")helps, at least in the case of Umlet. I already posted this bug. I will leave the manually set base dir fallback commented to find more software that does not adhere to standards.

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fontconfig folder in home directory

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