[FIXED] LibreOffice creates fontconfig folder in home

[rorschach]

It's not the hidden .fontconfig folder that normally exists in home folders (that one does exist). But it does contain a .cache file just like the other folder.
If I delete it, it shows up when I start LibreOffice again.

I copied Ubuntu's /etc/fonts contents so fonts would be smoother. Might that have done something?

[craigevil]

It is normal. And a good thing.

#681308 - libreoffice: slow display with font fallback (no fontconfig caching) - Debian Bug report logs - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681308

LibreOffice development - http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.do ... evel/31809

[rorschach]

Did I miss the part about creating a

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fontconfig

instead of

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.fontconfig

?

Also, it turns out that GIMP creates the same folder. A non-hidden

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fontconfig

.

[craigevil]

whoops so its not .fontconfig but a non-hidden folder named fontconfig?

Nothing like that here and I have both LibreOffice and GIMP installed, both of which are used often.

$ apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
Installed: 2.8.2-1
Candidate: 2.8.2-1
Version table:
*** 2.8.2-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages

$ apt-cache policy libreoffice
libreoffice:
Installed: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-3
Candidate: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-3
Version table:
1:3.6.3~rc2-1 0
1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
*** 1:3.5.4+dfsg-3 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages

[rorschach]

Yes, it's a fontconfig folder without a leading ".". Which is why its so annoying to have it pop up in my home folder all the time.

I'm running the same versions as you (except my libreoffice is dfsg-2), so I'm guessing it must be some side-effect from copying over Ubuntu's /etc/fonts contents. I'll try to reinstall Debian's and see if that fixes it, but if it does, then I'm left without smooth fonts.

[rorschach]

So the file that was the culprit appears to be /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
Copying over the rest of Ubuntu's /etc/fonts didn't seem to trigger the problem. Copying over the fonts.conf, however, did.

There is a section of that file that reads like so:

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	<cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
	<cachedir prefix="xdg">fontconfig</cachedir>
	<!-- the following element will be removed in the future -->
	<cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>

Adding a preceding "." to "fontconfig" on the second line in the above code seems to have fixed the problem, although I don't think that's really the proper way to do things.

[dbruce]

IMO copying anything under /etc from Ubuntu to Debian is just ..... well, it's just plain evil! And there's your proof!

[epiloque]

Just remove the

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<cachedir prefix="xdg">fontconfig</cachedir>

in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf