FONT_CACHER(1)

NAME
font_cacher - font cacher for the GNUstep xlib Backend

SYNOPSIS
font_cacher [options]

DESCRIPTION
The font_cacher program generates a cache from all available X fonts. The cache is stored in $HOME/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/Cache and is used only by the GNUstep xlib backend. The xlib backend will automatically launch font_cacher if the cache is not available or cannot be accessed. This can cause some slowness when a GNUstep application is started for the first time with xlib configured as backend.

Normally, the font_cacher program is used without options.

OPTIONS

--version
    Displays version information. (Not implemented.)

--help
    Prints the exact location of the file where the font cache will be written.

--GNU-Debug=dflt
    Displays progress and other debugging information while generating the cache. (This is a global GNUstep option.)

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
If $HOME/GNUstep/Library does not exist, font_cacher will fail and the directory must be created manually.

When fonts are installed or removed, the program must be invoked explicitly to update the cache. There is no way to handle this automatically.

SEE ALSO
Defaults related to the GNUstep Backend: $GNUSTEP_DOC/Developer/Back/General/DefaultsSummary.html

AUTHORS
font_cacher was written by Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de> and Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>.

This manual page was written by Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>.

COPYING
© 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This manual page is distributed under the same license as the font_cacher program.