[Fontconfig] Configuration File Format

[Keith Packard]

Around 14 o'clock on Jan 12, "Sharon Lam" wrote:

> Is there a way to turn off the default of the cache file so that
> the .fonts.cache-1 file will not be created for the per-user cache?

No there isn't.  You can, of course, point the cache file at a 
non-existant directory, which will (silently) fail to work.  This will 
have a similar effect, unless somehow the named direction is created at 
some point in the future.

Note that if you have any font directories which are out of sync with 
their cache files, every application in the system will rescan those fonts 
to compute their own version of the font information.  As a correlary, if 
every directory is in sync, the .fonts.cache-1 file will be empty.
 
Can you explain what problem you're trying to solve?  Perhaps there's a 
different solution than not having a per-user cache file.

-keith


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