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authorRobert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>2021-10-20 18:22:40 +0200
committerRobert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>2021-10-20 18:23:51 +0200
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downloademacs-2d647e88faeb53c15d00e2198da480dbd540a4ec.tar.gz
Describe how to debug fontconfig issues
* etc/PROBLEMS: Add FC_DEBUG usage pointers.
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@@ -751,6 +751,18 @@ Try removing or moving aside "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d" and
"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf"
($XDG_CONFIG_HOME is treated as "~/.config" if not set)
+Running Emacs as
+
+ FC_DEBUG=1024 emacs
+
+will cause fontconfig to output information about which configuration
+files it is reading. Running Emacs as
+
+ FC_DEBUG=1 emacs
+
+will result in information about the results of fontconfig's font
+matching (including the filename(s) of the resulting fonts).
+
*** This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.
For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes
with a newer version. Emacs compiled with Gtk+ will then use the