[Fontconfig] fontconfig configuration file

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> 
>> The error I get is during the start of X... So I tried tracing the 
>> startx command, but there is no reference at all to anything that has 
>> to do with fontconfig.
> 
> 
> That makes me think that you have multiple libfontconfig installed -- 
> some using non-existent config.

I did a locate and there is only one libfontconfig on my system.
I did mess around with the fontconfig, see my original post...

> 
>> I tried tracing startkde, but didn't really find a clue. In the 
>> .xsession_errors file I get:
> 
> 
> strace needs switches to follow children too.
> 
>> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
> 
> 
> Maybe try:
> 
>  strings /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so | egrep "/.*(conf|font)"
> 
> Or wherever your libfontconfig is at.
> 
> That worked for me on two systems to show where my configuration 
> directory was at.

It returns
/fonts.cache-1
~/.fonts.cache-1
/etc/fonts
/usr/share/fonts

there is a config file in /etc/fonts, but not in /usr/share/fonts, that 
directory doesn't exist.

what to do now?

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