# About an annoying font warning
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112 "2019-06-25T23:06:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@xilingchu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/xilingchu)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112/1 "2019-06-25T23:06:46Z")
Hi,
I met an annoying bug every time I try to open paraview. It showed me something like that:
Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/fonts.conf”, line 160: blank doesn’t take any effect anymore. please remove it from your fonts.conf
Of course I think it is not a very big issue and I can use paraview without any problem, but it seems annoying.
I using Debian 9.9 and Paraview 5.6.1.
Best wishes.
Ben
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112/2 "2019-06-25T23:56:51Z")
Hi Ben. Welcome to the ParaView community.
I have seen fonts.conf warnings like this, and was told it had to do with my local LAN’s system. Anyway, the sollution I use is to create a paraview script file, which calls the main paraview with the following:
/pathToParaView/paraview |& grep -v Fontconfig
Alan
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### Author:  [@xilingchu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/xilingchu)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112/3 "2019-06-26T01:43:54Z")
Ahaha, I see your solution. That’s a really good way to ignore warnings.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112/4 "2019-06-26T14:44:37Z")
This is because we build our ParaView binaries with a newer version of fontconfig. Your system has an older one installed which provides a configuration file using older syntax. The warnings are about that configuration file using older syntax.
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### Author:  [@xilingchu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/xilingchu)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/about-an-annoying-font-warning/2112/5 "2019-06-27T04:24:07Z")
Ok, I understood. Thanks for your help!
Best wishes!
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