Re: Tool for update of Xft/fontconfig font directory list?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Toralf <toralf kscanners com> writes:
> Does Red Hat 8.0 have a utilitiy like chkfontpath that will update the
> list of directories searched by Xft (rather than the xfs ones)? In
> fact, maybe the tool should be just chkfontpath, i.e. that Xft and xfs
> paths ought to be synced. Comments?
> 

We wanted to keep the two separate, since we basically didn't want a
lot of unscalable bitmap fonts in the fontconfig search path.

chkfontpath does a bit more than just add the directory (checks for
fonts.dir, restarts xfs). I'm not sure a command line utility is very
useful if it just adds "<dir>/whatever</dir>" to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
and runs fc-cache, which is all it would do for fontconfig.

Havoc