Is there a CLI call for Gimp to rebuild the font cache?

When Gimp starts, there can be a long wait time for font cache rebuilds.

Is there a way to tell Gimp to do this rebuild, from the commandline without starting the app?

• I see the docs page for CLI args. One solution may be to run gimp with --no-interface and then kill it.
• a workaround may be to launch Gimp as sudo, once.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Ideally, this would let people choose to add such a process to their cron / launchctl, as a daily/weekly task.

1 Answer

In GIMP 2.10, this should now be mostly obsolete - the interface comes up even if the font cache is still being built, and only if you want to use the text tools on the image you might encounter a message pointing that out.

Also, more current versions of the fontconfig library are much less likely to create corrupt font cache, so rebuilds happen less frequently.