Is there a way to refresh the in-memory font cache?

killermoehre at gmx.net killermoehre at gmx.net
Wed Dec 3 12:16:37 CET 2014


3. Dezember 2014 11:58 Uhr, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> schrieb: 
> On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 10:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 20:59:53 -0800
>> John W <jwdevel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>> 
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14494/screen-corruption-after-hibernate-is-there-another-way
>> to-refresh-the-x11-disp
>> 
>> The hint's e.g. to use the xrefresh command don't work?
>> 
>> Perhaps xfwm4 --replace does the job.
>> 
>> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pidof xfwm4
>> 25484
>> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ xfwm4 --replace
>> Waiting for current window manager (Xfwm4) on screen :0.0 to exit: Done
>> 
>> Then push ctrl+c.
>> 
>> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pidof xfwm4
>> 25561
> 
> PS: JFTR
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep font .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml
> <property name="title_font" type="string" value="Sans Bold 11"/>
> 
> You could grep all config files for the fonts and test if switching
> between configs automatically is applied. IOW make e.g. xfwm4.xml a link
> switching between xfwm4.xml.1 and xfwm4.xml.2.

Just don't do this. Just don't. Use xfconf-query to manipulate those settings.


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