After installing the latest noto fonts, fontconfig slow down

yangkeao · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2019 Posts: 2

I have upgrade package media-fonts/noto-20181024. In package noto-20181024, it contains 1800+ ttf files. Howeveer, in media-fonts/noto-20170403, it contains only 180+ ttf files.

So with the latest version of noto, my desktop (actually dwm) runs with unbearable cpu cost calling libfontconfig.so. Can fontconfig handle such a big number of font files? Or should I set some config to help it runs faster?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 11:37 am Post subject:

yangkeao welcome to gentoo forum.

Look this bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/678432
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mike155 · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 11:51 am Post subject:

The current Noto ebuild installs too many files. Only a few are required.

1) Log in as root

2) cd /usr/share/fonts/noto

3) Remove all files except

yangkeao · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2019 Posts: 2

Aha, I decided to wait for https://bugs.gentoo.org/678432 getting fixed.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

It's a pretty messed up situation. I've gone back to the old (2017) version, installed media-fonts/source-han-sans for CJK and put the updated NotoColorEmoji.ttf in my ~/.local/share/fonts/ for now.