How can I Generate the cachedmetrics file?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Stelios Papaioanou wrote:

> Hello to everybody,
>
> I have accidentally deleted my cachedmetrics file. I thought that 
> after I run wine and the file is not present,  wine would generate it 
> - but it didn't :(
> Does anybody know how can I generate that file?
> Thanx in advance
> Stelios
>
May I hazard a guess - everything seems to be working properly. 
Furthermore, let me guesstimate that you have a fontdir defined in your 
config file.

Alternatively, I can guess that the "fonts" dir inside your (fake?) 
windows is not empty.

If both those estimates are right, the answer is very simple. Wine did 
not generate the cache because it wasn't using it for quite some time 
anyways. The moment one font is available via either the fonts dir or in 
the fake "fonts" directory, wine will no longer use the X11 fonts, and 
will not need (and therefor generate) metrics cache.

If everything is working fine, just rejoice with your better, leaner, 
more efficient Wine. If you are having font problems (which may explain 
why you deleted the cache metrics), see if the following scenario sounds 
plausable:
1. You did not add any fontsdir directives to your config file.
2. Fonts cache was generated and everything worked.
3. You ran the install for some application.
4. Afterwards nothing worked any more, not even after deleting the fonts 
cache.

If that's what happened, a likely scenario is that the installation put 
an additional font in the fake windows fonts directory. This caused Wine 
to stop using the X11 fonts, and now your windows have no fonts defined. 
If that is the case you have two options. Either move the fonts from the 
fake windows into the X11 fonts directories, or point wine at the X11 
fonts as well (for example - by adding fontsdir directives to your 
config file).

hope this helps,

             Shachar

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