Re: Where is XDG_CONFIG_HOME defined?

[Rex Dieter]

On 12/04/2012 03:37 PM, José Matos wrote:
>  Hi,
>       I am running F18, and I got tired of getting the same warning all
>  over again:
>
>  Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading
>  configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
>
>  Reading the fonts-conf man page I found that the right place to put it is:
>
>  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/
>
>  yet I do not have any XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable defined. 
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined, it defaults to ~/.config

See http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

So, for the issue at hand,
mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig
mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

should fix your issue.

-- rex