NAME¶
update-fonts-dir - compile fonts.dir files
SYNOPSIS¶
update-fonts-dir [
OPTION]
directory ...
DESCRIPTION¶
update-fonts-dir creates a
fonts.dir file in an X font directory
by invoking
mkfontdir(1x) with the appropriate arguments. It is
typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of
a
package containing fonts for the X Window System, but may be invoked
at any time to reconstruct
fonts.dir files. For each
directory,
which is simply the last component of its path (such as ‘75dpi’
or ‘misc’),
update-fonts-dir will generate either
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory
/fonts.dir or
/usr/share/fonts/X11/directory
/fonts.dir from the
fonts.scale and font files found within it.
This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same directory.
No font package actually provides the
fonts.dir file in the X font
directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's font
names with those of another.
For instance, the two packages ‘xfonts-base’ (real) and
‘xfonts-nifty’ (hypothetical) may both install fonts into the
directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, and
update-fonts-dir will
ensure that the
fonts.dir file in that directory contains information
about the font files provided by both packages.
The format of
fonts.dir files is described in the
mkfontdir(1x)
manual page.
An example of how to use
update-fonts-dir in package maintainer scripts
is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
OPTIONS¶
-h, --help displays a brief usage message and exits.
-7, --x11r7-layout switches the font layout to the one
introduced in X11R7: fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory
(default is: fonts in
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory)
OPERANDS¶
update-fonts-dir takes one or more X font directory names to operate on
as operands. Only the final path component of the directory name should be
specified; e.g.,
update-fonts-dir 75dpi
is correct, while ‘
update-fonts-dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi’ and ‘
update-fonts-dir
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi’ are not.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- COLUMNS
- indicates the width of the terminal device in character cells. This value
is used for formatting diagnostic messages. If not set, the terminal is
queried using stty(1) to determine its width. If that fails, a
value of ‘80’ is assumed.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
Errors¶
- usage error: one or more font directories must be provided
- update-fonts-dir was invoked without operands. Supply one or more X
font directory names to operate on.
- usage error: unrecognized option
- update-fonts-dir was invoked with an unrecognized option argument.
Use only the options documented in “OPTIONS”, above.
- fatal error: path to X font directory must be used
- A directory name was supplied that was not an X font directory name.
Supply X font directory names only.
Warnings¶
- warning: absolute path directory was provided
- Usage of absolute paths is deprecated. Use only the final component of the
X font directory name for directory.
- warning: directory does not exist or is not a
directory
- The supplied directory was invalid. update-fonts-dir skipped
it.
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- update-fonts-dir ran successfully.
- 1
- update-fonts-dir experienced a fatal error; see the section on
diagnostic messages above.
- 2
- update-fonts-dir was invoked with invalid arguments.
BUGS¶
See the Debian Bug Tracking System ⟨URL:
http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils ⟩. If you wish to report a bug in
update-fonts-dir, please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the
reportbug(1)
command.
AUTHOR¶
update-fonts-dir was written by Branden Robinson.
SEE ALSO¶
mkfontdir(1x)