Lately my openoffice installation suffered from severe crashes. Anytime I wanted to pick a font from the drop down menu it crashed. It didn’t matter if it was oowriter2 or oocalc2 or whatever, it just crashed. I dedided that today was the day to fix this, so I started checking how OpenOffice reads the fonts of the system and created its font menu. <\/p>\n
My first thought was that it read the fonts from my xorf.conf. So I started messing up with those. I ended up by cleaning some fontpaths I did not use any more but that was no fix for OpenOffice. Then it was time to start cleaning up the fontpaths that I had kept. My \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF\/ dir was kinda large…so I started moving fonts from that dir to another named \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF-old\/ and tried to keep inside \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF\/ only the fonts I thought were good enough to keep. After a few X server restarts…the problem was gone. No more crashes. <\/p>\n
But there was something weird going on at the same time. My xorg.conf only included the \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF\/ fontpath and not \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF-old\/, still though some fonts from \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF-old\/ appeared inside the ooffice2 font drop-down menu. I started searching around and found that \/etc\/fonts\/fonts.conf included the whole \/usr\/share\/fonts\/ path. That meant that many applications read the fonts from \/usr\/share\/fonts\/TTF-old\/ too!
\nI removed \/usr\/share\/fonts\/ path from fonts.conf and replaced it with the fontpaths I use in xorg.conf too.<\/p>\n
The result ? Everything works smoothly now. I can even see (or imagine) a small perfomance gain in some applications now that I don’t have that many fonts loaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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