heard someplace that ~/.fonts has been depreciated???

I heard someplace that ~/.fonts has been depreciated??? Is this true?
I never been able to figure out /etc/fonts/conf.d (Find, yes. Understand, not so much.) I have a collection of ttf fonts I’ve acquired over the years, I’ve always simply put them in a fonts directory on my personal data partition, and then no mater which Linux installation I’m using at the moment I simply put a symlink in ~/ with something like:

ln -s /pathTOdata/fonts ~/.fonts

And I’ll have the same fonts available no mater which Linux I chose to boot that day…

Where are users supposed to put their personal fonts now? ~/.config/fonts maybe???

Heard from where? If it was from a source that controls whatever reads
~/.fonts now the chances that it also documents a replacement seems high.
If not… is it even true? I use ~/.fonts all of the time and if/when
it breaks I guess I’ll look for the fix and find it in a few seconds
thanks to Google.

Speaking of Google, it can’t find much on that, but it does find something
about ~/.fonts.conf.d being deprecated, but that’s not the same thing. Is
that what you mean? If so, I think this is not really going to affect
you, or me for that matter.

Good luck.

Not sure if this is what you heard, but it’s all I’ve seen (so far) about deprecating font stuff.

When I updated to 12.3, I started getting nastygrams in .xsession-errors saying something like “Reading info from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated” (not the exact wording). I did find a bug report (that I can’t locate right now) that said the default location was moving, and to make the messages go away enter:

mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig
mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

No more messages. YMMV

~/.fonts folder does work as intended on openSUSE 12.3

It would appear that on May 30, ab did say:

> Heard from where? If it was from a source that controls whatever reads
> ~/.fonts now the chances that it also documents a replacement seems high.
> If not… is it even true? I use ~/.fonts all of the time and if/when
> it breaks I guess I’ll look for the fix and find it in a few seconds
> thanks to Google.
>
> Speaking of Google, it can’t find much on that, but it does find something
> about ~/.fonts.conf.d being deprecated, but that’s not the same thing. Is
> that what you mean? If so, I think this is not really going to affect
> you, or me for that matter.

Seams that your right… My source was a konsole screen when some console app
fired up a gui app (Probably was alpine launching firefox, but I was to tired
to do more than wonder “What the {expletive deleted}” When I saw it scroll
by. Then when I posted this question the next day my memory was a bit faded…

Trying to replicate it to more accurately quote the source failed until I
began to suspect that I might have booted a different distribution that day.
I had just done a zypper up on my laptop’s opensuse, as well as equivalent
commands on each of the other 3 installed Linux distros including I remember
that it had been so long since I’d updated the Sabayon installation that it
took many hours… Evidently when I finished I failed to reboot into
opensuse before checking my mail, which contained a link, that on Sabayon
Linux resulted in a terminal error text of:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

So like I said, your right! {my bad…}

It would appear that on May 30, GeoBaltz did say:

> Not sure if this is what you heard, but it’s all I’ve seen (so far)
> about deprecating font stuff.
>
> When I updated to 12.3, I started getting nastygrams in
> …xsession-errors saying something like “Reading info from ~/.fonts.conf
> is deprecated” (not the exact wording). I did find a bug report (that I
> can’t locate right now) that said the default location was moving, and
> to make the messages go away enter:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig
> mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
> --------------------
>
>
> No more messages. YMMV

Now that might just be worth doing… Thanks!

It would appear that on May 31, vazhavandan did say:

> ~/.fonts folder does work as intended on openSUSE 12.3

Ouch! If that’s the case, I’m glad I’m still using 12.2…

What happens with 12.3? And do you have a workaround for the problem???


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perhaps you were reading too fast :slight_smile: I said “does” and not “doesn’t”

It would appear that on Jun 1, vazhavandan did say:

> jtwdyp;2561708 Wrote:
> > Ouch! If that’s the case, I’m glad I’m still using 12.2…
> >
> > What happens with 12.3? And do you have a workaround for the problem???
>
> perhaps you were reading too fast :slight_smile: I said “does” and not “doesn’t”
>

Ah but what’s an “n’t” or two between forum members???

I’m not sure if “fast” is the right word…

In any case, I read it “poorly” …

On the plus side: I’m glad to hear that 12.3 is alive and well :wink:


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