From 97747e6fb9890ef528cbe21636cc99508efeba2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Pluim Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 14:42:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Tell people how to remove fontconfig customizations --- etc/PROBLEMS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 7499726678e..cfca598d608 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -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 -- 2.39.5