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alleut

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Registered: 2016-04-29

Posts: 32

[SOLVED]How to prevent fontconfig upgrade from overriding my settings?

I use Noto as default fonts

ls /etc/fonts/conf.d/*noto*
46-noto-mono.conf  46-noto-sans.conf  46-noto-serif.conf  66-noto-mono.conf  66-noto-sans.conf  66-noto-serif.conf  70-noto-cjk.conf

and every time fontconfig is updated, it symlinks these to the config dir:

grep -RI Nimbus
30-metric-aliases.conf:Helvetica               Nimbus Sans         TeX Gyre Heros
30-metric-aliases.conf:Helvetica Narrow        Nimbus Sans Narrow  TeX Gyre Heros Cn
30-metric-aliases.conf:Times                   Nimbus Roman        TeX Gyre Termes
30-metric-aliases.conf:Courier                 Nimbus Mono PS      TeX Gyre Cursor
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Sans</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Sans Narrow</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Roman</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Mono</family>
30-metric-aliases.conf:	  <family>Nimbus Mono PS</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Roman</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Sans</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Mono</family>
45-latin.conf:		<family>Nimbus Mono PS</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Roman</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Sans</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Mono</family>
60-latin.conf:			<family>Nimbus Mono PS</family>

This messes up my fonts.

How do I prevent fontconfig from creating these links or make them ignored?

Last edited by alleut (2020-01-19 18:06:46)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,307

Re: [SOLVED]How to prevent fontconfig upgrade from overriding my settings?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_upgraded
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … _to_system

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