Yeah, definitely worked before. Maybe because I'm explicitly adding the users font directories to the configuration. But I assumed, probably incorrectly, that it was still using the users cache directory. In any case, I understand what you're saying and it makes sense. That appears correct from the libraries point of view. I'll test with master as soon as I can. Worst case scenario I can just unset XDG_CONFIG_HOME to get the desired behavior. Thanks again. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 1, 2014 7:11 AM, "Akira TAGOH" <<a href="mailto:akira@tagoh.org">akira@tagoh.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Jerry Casiano <<a href="mailto:jerrycasiano@gmail.com">jerrycasiano@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Thanks again for the quick attention. > > I really hate to be a bother. But I do have one concern about the latest commit. > If we disable the user cache and data directories, will FontConfig > write the users cache/data somewhere else? Or will the users fonts > simply not show up? Only reading/writing the caches/fonts/config on the system directories. i.e. if the caches needs to be updated, that requires the write access to the system cache directory then. otherwise, fontconfig will tries to read the caches on the system cache directories and show up the fonts on the system fonts only. that said, correctly speaking, it just affects FcConfigHome() behavior. if one writes the full path (without using ~ of course) in the system's fonts.conf to somewhere on the user directories, that will still be used. > > Some background, my application Font Manager disables loading of user > configuration files so that FontConfig will give it a full listing of > installed files even those that are disabled using <rejectfont>. Then > it selectively loads user configuration files that don't affect > rendering through Pango. Did it really work before? fontconfig relies on FcConfigHome() to obtain the user's home directory, FcConfigEnableHome(FcFalse) should applies to the caches, config, and fonts then. -- Akira TAGOH </blockquote></div>