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authorRobert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>2021-01-05 14:42:10 +0100
committerRobert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>2021-01-05 14:42:10 +0100
commit97747e6fb9890ef528cbe21636cc99508efeba2b (patch)
tree5b7efaf3118cf143be4d0c99f2c582b250a67940
parent33d0c603c6795488ed0283a1e83cb02eb290f567 (diff)
downloademacs-97747e6fb9890ef528cbe21636cc99508efeba2b.tar.gz
Tell people how to remove fontconfig customizations
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@@ -693,6 +693,11 @@ versions of gnutls-cli, or use Emacs's built-in gnutls support.
** Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
+*** This may be due to your local fontconfig customization.
+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)
+
*** 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