fonts-conf

Name

   fonts.conf -- Font configuration files

Synopsis

      /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

      /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd

      /etc/fonts/conf.d

      $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d

      $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf

      ~/.fonts.conf.d

      ~/.fonts.conf

Description

   Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font

   configuration, customization and application access.

Functional Overview

   Fontconfig contains two essential modules, the configuration module which

   builds an internal configuration from XML files and the matching module

   which accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching font.

  Font Configuration

   The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and

   FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and amends a configuration with

   data found within. From an external perspective, configuration of the

   library consists of generating a valid XML tree and feeding that to

   FcConfigParse. The only other mechanism provided to applications for

   changing the running configuration is to add fonts and directories to the

   list of application-provided font files.

   The intent is to make font configurations relatively static, and shared by

   as many applications as possible. It is hoped that this will lead to more

   stable font selection when passing names from one application to another.

   XML was chosen as a configuration file format because it provides a format

   which is easy for external agents to edit while retaining the correct

   structure and syntax.

   Font configuration is separate from font matching; applications needing to

   do their own matching can access the available fonts from the library and

   perform private matching. The intent is to permit applications to pick and

   choose appropriate functionality from the library instead of forcing them

   to choose between this library and a private configuration mechanism. The

   hope is that this will ensure that configuration of fonts for all

   applications can be centralized in one place. Centralizing font

   configuration will simplify and regularize font installation and

   customization.

  Font Properties

   While font patterns may contain essentially any properties, there are some

   well known properties with associated types. Fontconfig uses some of these

   properties for font matching and font completion. Others are provided as a

   convenience for the applications' rendering mechanism.

  Property        Type    Description

  --------------------------------------------------------------

  family          String  Font family names

  familylang      String  Languages corresponding to each family

  style           String  Font style. Overrides weight and slant

  stylelang       String  Languages corresponding to each style

  fullname        String  Font full names (often includes style)

  fullnamelang    String  Languages corresponding to each fullname

  slant           Int     Italic, oblique or roman

  weight          Int     Light, medium, demibold, bold or black

  size            Double  Point size

  width           Int     Condensed, normal or expanded

  aspect          Double  Stretches glyphs horizontally before hinting

  pixelsize       Double  Pixel size

  spacing         Int     Proportional, dual-width, monospace or charcell

  foundry         String  Font foundry name

  antialias       Bool    Whether glyphs can be antialiased

  hinting         Bool    Whether the rasterizer should use hinting

  hintstyle       Int     Automatic hinting style

  verticallayout  Bool    Use vertical layout

  autohint        Bool    Use autohinter instead of normal hinter

  globaladvance   Bool    Use font global advance data (deprecated)

  file            String  The filename holding the font

  index           Int     The index of the font within the file

  ftface          FT_Face Use the specified FreeType face object

  rasterizer      String  Which rasterizer is in use (deprecated)

  outline         Bool    Whether the glyphs are outlines

  scalable        Bool    Whether glyphs can be scaled

  color           Bool    Whether any glyphs have color

  scale           Double  Scale factor for point->pixel conversions (deprecated)

  dpi             Double  Target dots per inch

  rgba            Int     unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb, vbgr,

                          none - subpixel geometry

  lcdfilter       Int     Type of LCD filter

  minspace        Bool    Eliminate leading from line spacing

  charset         CharSet Unicode chars encoded by the font

  lang            String  List of RFC-3066-style languages this

                          font supports

  fontversion     Int     Version number of the font

  capability      String  List of layout capabilities in the font

  fontformat      String  String name of the font format

  embolden        Bool    Rasterizer should synthetically embolden the font

  embeddedbitmap  Bool    Use the embedded bitmap instead of the outline

  decorative      Bool    Whether the style is a decorative variant

  fontfeatures    String  List of the feature tags in OpenType to be enabled

  namelang        String  Language name to be used for the default value of

                          familylang, stylelang, and fullnamelang

  prgname         String  String  Name of the running program

  postscriptname  String  Font family name in PostScript

  Font Matching

   Fontconfig performs matching by measuring the distance from a provided

   pattern to all of the available fonts in the system. The closest matching

   font is selected. This ensures that a font will always be returned, but

   doesn't ensure that it is anything like the requested pattern.

   Font matching starts with an application constructed pattern. The desired

   attributes of the resulting font are collected together in a pattern. Each

   property of the pattern can contain one or more values; these are listed

   in priority order; matches earlier in the list are considered "closer"

   than matches later in the list.

   The initial pattern is modified by applying the list of editing

   instructions specific to patterns found in the configuration; each

   consists of a match predicate and a set of editing operations. They are

   executed in the order they appeared in the configuration. Each match

   causes the associated sequence of editing operations to be applied.

   After the pattern has been edited, a sequence of default substitutions are

   performed to canonicalize the set of available properties; this avoids the

   need for the lower layers to constantly provide default values for various

   font properties during rendering.

   The canonical font pattern is finally matched against all available fonts.

   The distance from the pattern to the font is measured for each of several

   properties: foundry, charset, family, lang, spacing, pixelsize, style,

   slant, weight, antialias, rasterizer and outline. This list is in priority

   order -- results of comparing earlier elements of this list weigh more

   heavily than later elements.

   There is one special case to this rule; family names are split into two

   bindings; strong and weak. Strong family names are given greater

   precedence in the match than lang elements while weak family names are

   given lower precedence than lang elements. This permits the document

   language to drive font selection when any document specified font is

   unavailable.

   The pattern representing that font is augmented to include any properties

   found in the pattern but not found in the font itself; this permits the

   application to pass rendering instructions or any other data through the

   matching system. Finally, the list of editing instructions specific to

   fonts found in the configuration are applied to the pattern. This modified

   pattern is returned to the application.

   The return value contains sufficient information to locate and rasterize

   the font, including the file name, pixel size and other rendering data. As

   none of the information involved pertains to the FreeType library,

   applications are free to use any rasterization engine or even to take the

   identified font file and access it directly.

   The match/edit sequences in the configuration are performed in two passes

   because there are essentially two different operations necessary -- the

   first is to modify how fonts are selected; aliasing families and adding

   suitable defaults. The second is to modify how the selected fonts are

   rasterized. Those must apply to the selected font, not the original

   pattern as false matches will often occur.

  Font Names

   Fontconfig provides a textual representation for patterns that the library

   can both accept and generate. The representation is in three parts, first

   a list of family names, second a list of point sizes and finally a list of

   additional properties:

           <families>-<point sizes>:<name1>=<values1>:<name2>=<values2>...

   Values in a list are separated with commas. The name needn't include

   either families or point sizes; they can be elided. In addition, there are

   symbolic constants that simultaneously indicate both a name and a value.

   Here are some examples:

     Name                            Meaning

     ----------------------------------------------------------

     Times-12                        12 point Times Roman

     Times-12:bold                   12 point Times Bold

     Courier:italic                  Courier Italic in the default size

     Monospace:matrix=1 .1 0 1       The users preferred monospace font

                                     with artificial obliquing

   The '\', '-', ':' and ',' characters in family names must be preceded by a

   '\' character to avoid having them misinterpreted. Similarly, values

   containing '\', '=', '_', ':' and ',' must also have them preceded by a

   '\' character. The '\' characters are stripped out of the family name and

   values as the font name is read.

Debugging Applications

   To help diagnose font and applications problems, fontconfig is built with

   a large amount of internal debugging left enabled. It is controlled by

   means of the FC_DEBUG environment variable. The value of this variable is

   interpreted as a number, and each bit within that value controls different

   debugging messages.

     Name         Value    Meaning

     ---------------------------------------------------------

     MATCH            1    Brief information about font matching

     MATCHV           2    Extensive font matching information

     EDIT             4    Monitor match/test/edit execution

     FONTSET          8    Track loading of font information at startup

     CACHE           16    Watch cache files being written

     CACHEV          32    Extensive cache file writing information

     PARSE           64    (no longer in use)

     SCAN           128    Watch font files being scanned to build caches

     SCANV          256    Verbose font file scanning information

     MEMORY         512    Monitor fontconfig memory usage

     CONFIG        1024    Monitor which config files are loaded

     LANGSET       2048    Dump char sets used to construct lang values

     MATCH2        4096    Display font-matching transformation in patterns

   Add the value of the desired debug levels together and assign that (in

   base 10) to the FC_DEBUG environment variable before running the

   application. Output from these statements is sent to stdout.

Lang Tags

   Each font in the database contains a list of languages it supports. This

   is computed by comparing the Unicode coverage of the font with the

   orthography of each language. Languages are tagged using an RFC-3066

   compatible naming and occur in two parts -- the ISO 639 language tag

   followed a hyphen and then by the ISO 3166 country code. The hyphen and

   country code may be elided.

   Fontconfig has orthographies for several languages built into the library.

   No provision has been made for adding new ones aside from rebuilding the

   library. It currently supports 122 of the 139 languages named in ISO

   639-1, 141 of the languages with two-letter codes from ISO 639-2 and

   another 30 languages with only three-letter codes. Languages with both two

   and three letter codes are provided with only the two letter code.

   For languages used in multiple territories with radically different

   character sets, fontconfig includes per-territory orthographies. This

   includes Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Pashto, Tigrinya and Chinese.

Configuration File Format

   Configuration files for fontconfig are stored in XML format; this format

   makes external configuration tools easier to write and ensures that they

   will generate syntactically correct configuration files. As XML files are

   plain text, they can also be manipulated by the expert user using a text

   editor.

   The fontconfig document type definition resides in the external entity

   "fonts.dtd"; this is normally stored in the default font configuration

   directory (/etc/fonts). Each configuration file should contain the

   following structure:

           <fontconfig>

           ...

           </fontconfig>

  <fontconfig>

   This is the top level element for a font configuration and can contain

   <dir>, <cachedir>, <include>, <match> and <alias> elements in any order.

  <dir prefix="default">

   This element contains a directory name which will be scanned for font

   files to include in the set of available fonts. If 'prefix' is set to

   "xdg", the value in the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable will be added

   as the path prefix. please see XDG Base Directory Specification for more

   details.

  <cachedir prefix="default">

   This element contains a directory name that is supposed to be stored or

   read the cache of font information. If multiple elements are specified in

   the configuration file, the directory that can be accessed first in the

   list will be used to store the cache files. If it starts with '~', it

   refers to a directory in the users home directory. If 'prefix' is set to

   "xdg", the value in the XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable will be added

   as the path prefix. please see XDG Base Directory Specification for more

   details. The default directory is ``$XDG_CACHE_HOME/fontconfig'' and it

   contains the cache files named ``

   value>-<architecture>.cache-<version>'', where <version> is the fontconfig

   cache file version number (currently 7).

  <include ignore_missing="no" prefix="default">

   This element contains the name of an additional configuration file or

   directory. If a directory, every file within that directory starting with

   an ASCII digit (U+0030 - U+0039) and ending with the string ``.conf'' will

   be processed in sorted order. When the XML datatype is traversed by

   FcConfigParse, the contents of the file(s) will also be incorporated into

   the configuration by passing the filename(s) to FcConfigLoadAndParse. If

   'ignore_missing' is set to "yes" instead of the default "no", a missing

   file or directory will elicit no warning message from the library. If

   'prefix' is set to "xdg", the value in the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment

   variable will be added as the path prefix. please see XDG Base Directory

   Specification for more details.

  <config>

   This element provides a place to consolidate additional configuration

   information. <config> can contain <blank> and <rescan> elements in any

   order.

  <blank>

   Fonts often include "broken" glyphs which appear in the encoding but are

   drawn as blanks on the screen. Within the <blank> element, place each

   Unicode characters which is supposed to be blank in an <int> element.

   Characters outside of this set which are drawn as blank will be elided

   from the set of characters supported by the font.

  <rescan>

   The <rescan> element holds an <int> element which indicates the default

   interval between automatic checks for font configuration changes.

   Fontconfig will validate all of the configuration files and directories

   and automatically rebuild the internal datastructures when this interval

   passes.

  <selectfont>

   This element is used to black/white list fonts from being listed or

   matched against. It holds acceptfont and rejectfont elements.

  <acceptfont>

   Fonts matched by an acceptfont element are "whitelisted"; such fonts are

   explicitly included in the set of fonts used to resolve list and match

   requests; including them in this list protects them from being

   "blacklisted" by a rejectfont element. Acceptfont elements include glob

   and pattern elements which are used to match fonts.

  <rejectfont>

   Fonts matched by an rejectfont element are "blacklisted"; such fonts are

   excluded from the set of fonts used to resolve list and match requests as

   if they didn't exist in the system. Rejectfont elements include glob and

   pattern elements which are used to match fonts.

  <glob>

   Glob elements hold shell-style filename matching patterns (including ? and

   *) which match fonts based on their complete pathnames. This can be used

   to exclude a set of directories (/usr/share/fonts/uglyfont*), or

   particular font file types (*.pcf.gz), but the latter mechanism relies

   rather heavily on filenaming conventions which can't be relied upon. Note

   that globs only apply to directories, not to individual fonts.

  <pattern>

   Pattern elements perform list-style matching on incoming fonts; that is,

   they hold a list of elements and associated values. If all of those

   elements have a matching value, then the pattern matches the font. This

   can be used to select fonts based on attributes of the font (scalable,

   bold, etc), which is a more reliable mechanism than using file extensions.

   Pattern elements include patelt elements.

  <patelt name="property">

   Patelt elements hold a single pattern element and list of values. They

   must have a 'name' attribute which indicates the pattern element name.

   Patelt elements include int, double, string, matrix, bool, charset and

   const elements.

  <match target="pattern">

   This element holds first a (possibly empty) list of <test> elements and

   then a (possibly empty) list of <edit> elements. Patterns which match all

   of the tests are subjected to all the edits. If 'target' is set to "font"

   instead of the default "pattern", then this element applies to the font

   name resulting from a match rather than a font pattern to be matched. If

   'target' is set to "scan", then this element applies when the font is

   scanned to build the fontconfig database.

  <test qual="any" name="property" target="default" compare="eq">

   This element contains a single value which is compared with the target

   ('pattern', 'font', 'scan' or 'default') property "property" (substitute

   any of the property names seen above). 'compare' can be one of "eq",

   "not_eq", "less", "less_eq", "more", "more_eq", "contains" or

   "not_contains". 'qual' may either be the default, "any", in which case the

   match succeeds if any value associated with the property matches the test

   value, or "all", in which case all of the values associated with the

   property must match the test value. 'ignore-blanks' takes a boolean value.

   if 'ignore-blanks' is set "true", any blanks in the string will be ignored

   on its comparison. this takes effects only when compare="eq" or

   compare="not_eq". When used in a <match target="font"> element, the

   target= attribute in the <test> element selects between matching the

   original pattern or the font. "default" selects whichever target the outer

   <match> element has selected.

  <edit name="property" mode="assign" binding="weak">

   This element contains a list of expression elements (any of the value or

   operator elements). The expression elements are evaluated at run-time and

   modify the property "property". The modification depends on whether

   "property" was matched by one of the associated <test> elements, if so,

   the modification may affect the first matched value. Any values inserted

   into the property are given the indicated binding ("strong", "weak" or

   "same") with "same" binding using the value from the matched pattern

   element. 'mode' is one of:

     Mode                    With Match              Without Match

     ---------------------------------------------------------------------

     "assign"                Replace matching value  Replace all values

     "assign_replace"        Replace all values      Replace all values

     "prepend"               Insert before matching  Insert at head of list

     "prepend_first"         Insert at head of list  Insert at head of list

     "append"                Append after matching   Append at end of list

     "append_last"           Append at end of list   Append at end of list

     "delete"                Delete matching value   Delete all values

     "delete_all"            Delete all values       Delete all values

  <int>, <double>, <string>, <bool>

   These elements hold a single value of the indicated type. <bool> elements

   hold either true or false. An important limitation exists in the parsing

   of floating point numbers -- fontconfig requires that the mantissa start

   with a digit, not a decimal point, so insert a leading zero for purely

   fractional values (e.g. use 0.5 instead of .5 and -0.5 instead of -.5).

  <matrix>

   This element holds four numerical expressions of an affine transformation.

   At their simplest these will be four <double> elements but they can also

   be more involved expressions.

  <range>

   This element holds the two <int> elements of a range representation.

  <charset>

   This element holds at least one <int> element of an Unicode code point or

   more.

  <langset>

   This element holds at least one <string> element of a RFC-3066-style

   languages or more.

  <name>

   Holds a property name. Evaluates to the first value from the property of

   the pattern. If the 'target' attribute is not present, it will default to

   'default', in which case the property is returned from the font pattern

   during a target="font" match, and to the pattern during a target="pattern"

   match. The attribute can also take the values 'font' or 'pattern' to

   explicitly choose which pattern to use. It is an error to use a target of

   'font' in a match that has target="pattern".

  <const>

   Holds the name of a constant; these are always integers and serve as

   symbolic names for common font values:

     Constant        Property        Value

     -------------------------------------

     thin            weight          0

     extralight      weight          40

     ultralight      weight          40

     light           weight          50

     demilight       weight          55

     semilight       weight          55

     book            weight          75

     regular         weight          80

     normal          weight          80

     medium          weight          100

     demibold        weight          180

     semibold        weight          180

     bold            weight          200

     extrabold       weight          205

     black           weight          210

     heavy           weight          210

     roman           slant           0

     italic          slant           100

     oblique         slant           110

     ultracondensed  width           50

     extracondensed  width           63

     condensed       width           75

     semicondensed   width           87

     normal          width           100

     semiexpanded    width           113

     expanded        width           125

     extraexpanded   width           150

     ultraexpanded   width           200

     proportional    spacing         0

     dual            spacing         90

     mono            spacing         100

     charcell        spacing         110

     unknown         rgba            0

     rgb             rgba            1

     bgr             rgba            2

     vrgb            rgba            3

     vbgr            rgba            4

     none            rgba            5

     lcdnone         lcdfilter       0

     lcddefault      lcdfilter       1

     lcdlight        lcdfilter       2

     lcdlegacy       lcdfilter       3

     hintnone        hintstyle       0

     hintslight      hintstyle       1

     hintmedium      hintstyle       2

     hintfull        hintstyle       3

  <or>, <and>, <plus>, <minus>, <times>, <divide>

   These elements perform the specified operation on a list of expression

   elements. <or> and <and> are boolean, not bitwise.

  <eq>, <not_eq>, <less>, <less_eq>, <more>, <more_eq>, <contains>,

   These elements compare two values, producing a boolean result.

  <not>

   Inverts the boolean sense of its one expression element

  <if>

   This element takes three expression elements; if the value of the first is

   true, it produces the value of the second, otherwise it produces the value

   of the third.

  <alias>

   Alias elements provide a shorthand notation for the set of common match

   operations needed to substitute one font family for another. They contain

   a <family> element followed by optional <prefer>, <accept> and <default>

   elements. Fonts matching the <family> element are edited to prepend the

   list of <prefer>ed families before the matching <family>, append the

   <accept>able families after the matching <family> and append the <default>

   families to the end of the family list.

  <family>

   Holds a single font family name

  <prefer>, <accept>, <default>

   These hold a list of <family> elements to be used by the <alias> element.

EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILE

  System configuration file

   This is an example of a system-wide configuration file

<fontconfig>

        Find fonts in these directories

-->

<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>

<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>

        Accept deprecated 'mono' alias, replacing it with 'monospace'

-->

<match target="pattern">

        <test qual="any" name="family"><string>mono</string></test>

        <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>monospace</string></edit>

</match>

        Names not including any well known alias are given 'sans-serif'

-->

<match target="pattern">

        <test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq"><string>sans-serif</string></test>

        <test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq"><string>serif</string></test>

        <test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq"><string>monospace</string></test>

        <edit name="family" mode="append_last"><string>sans-serif</string></edit>

</match>

        Load per-user customization file, but don't complain

        if it doesn't exist

-->

<include ignore_missing="yes" prefix="xdg">fontconfig/fonts.conf</include>

        Load local customization files, but don't complain

        if there aren't any

-->

<include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include>

<include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>

        Alias well known font names to available TrueType fonts.

        These substitute TrueType faces for similar Type1

        faces to improve screen appearance.

-->

<alias>

        <family>Times</family>

        <prefer><family>Times New Roman</family></prefer>

        <default><family>serif</family></default>

</alias>

<alias>

        <family>Helvetica</family>

        <prefer><family>Arial</family></prefer>

        <default><family>sans</family></default>

</alias>

<alias>

        <family>Courier</family>

        <prefer><family>Courier New</family></prefer>

        <default><family>monospace</family></default>

</alias>

        Provide required aliases for standard names

        Do these after the users configuration file so that

        any aliases there are used preferentially

-->

<alias>

        <family>serif</family>

        <prefer><family>Times New Roman</family></prefer>

</alias>

<alias>

        <family>sans</family>

        <prefer><family>Arial</family></prefer>

</alias>

<alias>

        <family>monospace</family>

        <prefer><family>Andale Mono</family></prefer>

</alias>

<--

        The example of the requirements of OR operator;

        If the 'family' contains 'Courier New' OR 'Courier'

        add 'monospace' as the alternative

-->

<match target="pattern">

        <test name="family" compare="eq">

                <string>Courier New</string>

        </test>

        <edit name="family" mode="prepend">

                <string>monospace</string>

        </edit>

</match>

<match target="pattern">

        <test name="family" compare="eq">

                <string>Courier</string>

        </test>

        <edit name="family" mode="prepend">

                <string>monospace</string>

        </edit>

</match>

</fontconfig>

  User configuration file

   This is an example of a per-user configuration file that lives in

   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf

 <fontconfig>

         Private font directory

 -->

 <dir prefix="xdg">fonts</dir>

         use rgb sub-pixel ordering to improve glyph appearance on

         LCD screens.  Changes affecting rendering, but not matching

         should always use target="font".

 -->

 <match target="font">

         <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>

 </match>

         use WenQuanYi Zen Hei font when serif is requested for Chinese

 -->

 <match>

                 If you don't want to use WenQuanYi Zen Hei font for zh-tw etc,

                 you can use zh-cn instead of zh.

                 Please note, even if you set zh-cn, it still matches zh.

                 if you don't like it, you can use compare="eq"

                 instead of compare="contains".

         -->

         <test name="lang" compare="contains">

                 <string>zh</string>

         </test>

         <test name="family">

                 <string>serif</string>

         </test>

         <edit name="family" mode="prepend">

                 <string>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</string>

         </edit>

 </match>

         use VL Gothic font when sans-serif is requested for Japanese

 -->

 <match>

         <test name="lang" compare="contains">

                 <string>ja</string>

         </test>

         <test name="family">

                 <string>sans-serif</string>

         </test>

         <edit name="family" mode="prepend">

                 <string>VL Gothic</string>

         </edit>

 </match>

 </fontconfig>

Files

   fonts.conf contains configuration information for the fontconfig library

   consisting of directories to look at for font information as well as

   instructions on editing program specified font patterns before attempting

   to match the available fonts. It is in XML format.

   conf.d is the conventional name for a directory of additional

   configuration files managed by external applications or the local

   administrator. The filenames starting with decimal digits are sorted in

   lexicographic order and used as additional configuration files. All of

   these files are in XML format. The master fonts.conf file references this

   directory in an <include> directive.

   fonts.dtd is a DTD that describes the format of the configuration files.

   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d and ~/.fonts.conf.d is the conventional

   name for a per-user directory of (typically auto-generated) configuration

   files, although the actual location is specified in the global fonts.conf

   file. please note that ~/.fonts.conf.d is deprecated now. it will not be

   read by default in the future version.

   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf and ~/.fonts.conf is the

   conventional location for per-user font configuration, although the actual

   location is specified in the global fonts.conf file. please note that

   ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated now. it will not be read by default in the

   future version.

   $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fontconfig/*.cache-* and ~/.fontconfig/*.cache-* is the

   conventional repository of font information that isn't found in the

   per-directory caches. This file is automatically maintained by fontconfig.

   please note that ~/.fontconfig/*.cache-* is deprecated now. it will not be

   read by default in the future version.

Environment variables

   FONTCONFIG_FILE is used to override the default configuration file.

   FONTCONFIG_PATH is used to override the default configuration directory.

   FONTCONFIG_SYSROOT is used to set a default sysroot directory.

   FC_DEBUG is used to output the detailed debugging messages. see

   [1]Debugging Applications section for more details.

   FC_DBG_MATCH_FILTER is used to filter out the patterns. this takes a

   comma-separated list of object names and effects only when FC_DEBUG has

   MATCH2. see [2]Debugging Applications section for more details.

   FC_LANG is used to specify the default language as the weak binding in the

   query. if this isn't set, the default language will be determined from

   current locale.

   FONTCONFIG_USE_MMAP is used to control the use of mmap(2) for the cache

   files if available. this take a boolean value. fontconfig will checks if

   the cache files are stored on the filesystem that is safe to use mmap(2).

   explicitly setting this environment variable will causes skipping this

   check and enforce to use or not use mmap(2) anyway.

   SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is used to ensure fc-cache(1) generates files in a

   deterministic manner in order to support reproducible builds. When set to

   a numeric representation of UNIX timestamp, fontconfig will prefer this

   value over using the modification timestamps of the input files in order

   to identify which cache files require regeneration. If SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

   is not set (or is newer than the mtime of the directory), the existing

   behaviour is unchanged.

See Also

   fc-cat(1), fc-cache(1), fc-list(1), fc-match(1), fc-query(1),

   [3]SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.

Version

   Fontconfig version 2.13.1

References

   Visible links

   1. file:///tmp/html-cm5uzN#DEBUG

   2. file:///tmp/html-cm5uzN#DEBUG

   3. https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/