Hi John!
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I am tryihg to follow the wiki on "Fonts in Luatex." It suggests the following statement for Linux systems:
export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts"
But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used:
export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts"
The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I still have no gui fonts.
Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still working?
If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that won't wipe out my gui fonts.
OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it possible that you accidentally modified something else, like ~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ? Best regards, Philipp