[Fontconfig] fc-cache is not always caching newly installed fonts.

Huang Peng shawn.p.huang at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 01:02:59 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:57 +0200, Donn wrote:
> > When system have been installed, and we adjust the system time to past,
> > and then install some new fonts in system fonts dir (/usr/share/fonts).
> > Applications can not find new installed fonts. So what can we do to fix
> > this problem?
> 
> I'm nobody, but it seems to me: a) Don't mess with system time, b) run 
> fc-cache ?

For a). In many Linux distributions, users can not adjust the system
time before installing system (Except the BIOS). They  have to adjust
system time in firstboot.

For b). fc-cache can not find new installed fonts too. :(

Thanks
Huang Peng




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