Font Management On Linux DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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All I've ever done is search the font I wanted on the web, download a ttf/otf file and double click it, a window pops up that has an image of how it looks like and a -install- and -cancel- on the title bar, hit -install- if I liked it or -cancel- if I didn't. After that I'd go and change to it from the settings. Never knew about -font managers- nor the terminal. Honestly. Lol
Edit: just realized that I've been watching your videos for a while without subbing. Haha
You've got a new sub, sir.
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All I've ever done is search the font I wanted on the web, download a ttf/otf file and double click it, a window pops up that has an image of how it looks like and a -install- and -cancel- on the title bar, hit -install- if I liked it or -cancel- if I didn't. After that I'd go and change to it from the settings. Never knew about -font managers- nor the terminal. Honestly. Lol
Edit: just realized that I've been watching your videos for a while without subbing. Haha
You've got a new sub, sir.
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rayan
I've been using Linux on and off for years (10+), and now Manjaro is my daily driver; I've done shell scripting on AIX, some perl scripting, I've installed different distros allong the way, and I'm confortable using the terminal, but I'm a developer not a sysadmin, and I have to confess that I've used Linux as a tool and I haven't tinker a lot with it, so there are a lot of things that DT does that I've never done that make me feel like a complete noob to Linux
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I've been using Linux on and off for years (10+), and now Manjaro is my daily driver; I've done shell scripting on AIX, some perl scripting, I've installed different distros allong the way, and I'm confortable using the terminal, but I'm a developer not a sysadmin, and I have to confess that I've used Linux as a tool and I haven't tinker a lot with it, so there are a lot of things that DT does that I've never done that make me feel like a complete noob to Linux
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Buttons
Which fonts can you NOT delete from usr/share/fonts ?
I have a lot, and they bloat my fonts lists (in programs like LibreOffice, image editers, etc. I want to remove those I don't want, but I don't want all text on my OS to turn into square boxes.
Can you like delete all of them except one or a few, so that you can keep seeing the text on the GUI?
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Which fonts can you NOT delete from usr/share/fonts ?
I have a lot, and they bloat my fonts lists (in programs like LibreOffice, image editers, etc. I want to remove those I don't want, but I don't want all text on my OS to turn into square boxes.
Can you like delete all of them except one or a few, so that you can keep seeing the text on the GUI?
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Raw
Thanks DT, Interesting stuff as always! I've been a Nubie for the past 10 yrs, Haven't needed to do anything with fonts, Maybe i just want an OS that works! However there's a lot of folk that seems to know better, Is there some sort of intellectual competition going on , With some jobs worth!
Anyhow I like your content, I'm learning from it!
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Thanks DT, Interesting stuff as always! I've been a Nubie for the past 10 yrs, Haven't needed to do anything with fonts, Maybe i just want an OS that works! However there's a lot of folk that seems to know better, Is there some sort of intellectual competition going on , With some jobs worth!
Anyhow I like your content, I'm learning from it!
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Patrik
Your script does not work properly (at least on my system). If there are any fonts that have spaces in the file name, it won't work (e.g. Ubuntu Mono Nerd font). I have modified the solution to this:
fc-list - grep -oP --.-?(?=:)-
(start from the beginning of the line, go up to the first column and don't include the column)
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Your script does not work properly (at least on my system). If there are any fonts that have spaces in the file name, it won't work (e.g. Ubuntu Mono Nerd font). I have modified the solution to this:
fc-list - grep -oP --.-?(?=:)-
(start from the beginning of the line, go up to the first column and don't include the column)
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MrBananaFarm
Awesome content. I'm currently struggling to get the correct UI font size in Firefox. It's just to small. I tried modifieng the xorg.conf monitor dimensions, but that didn't help. I would really like firefox to use the system font size. Is there any other way to achieve that?
Thanks in advance! :)
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Awesome content. I'm currently struggling to get the correct UI font size in Firefox. It's just to small. I tried modifieng the xorg.conf monitor dimensions, but that didn't help. I would really like firefox to use the system font size. Is there any other way to achieve that?
Thanks in advance! :)
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BenitoF2009
Hey DT!
Is there a way to print a list of samples of all fonts on the system in one pdf file and every fonts name is displayed in the corresponding font.
For MS Word there was a macro that can do exactly that. Is the a alternativ way to do that on linux in terminal or libreoffice?
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Hey DT!
Is there a way to print a list of samples of all fonts on the system in one pdf file and every fonts name is displayed in the corresponding font.
For MS Word there was a macro that can do exactly that. Is the a alternativ way to do that on linux in terminal or libreoffice?
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Tiberiu
I would not recommend fontmatrix ... it is a large program and is still buggy on the latest stable version. Not to mention it takes 6+ minutes to install on a i9 9900K with 64 GB RAM and a high-end nVME. Better stick with the command line tools at your disposal. All-n all, great video -DT
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I would not recommend fontmatrix ... it is a large program and is still buggy on the latest stable version. Not to mention it takes 6+ minutes to install on a i9 9900K with 64 GB RAM and a high-end nVME. Better stick with the command line tools at your disposal. All-n all, great video -DT
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Giovanni
Maybe -/usr/local/share/fonts- is a better place for system wide manual installed fonts
There is a lot of fonts available in standard distro:
apt search font; apt search ttf
dnf search --all font ttf
But, How to search in Arch? pacman -Ss 'fonts-ttf'; yay -Ss ???
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Maybe -/usr/local/share/fonts- is a better place for system wide manual installed fonts
There is a lot of fonts available in standard distro:
apt search font; apt search ttf
dnf search --all font ttf
But, How to search in Arch? pacman -Ss 'fonts-ttf'; yay -Ss ???
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Mr.
mkdir -p -/.local/share/fonts
cp -/Downloads/-.-ttf,otf- -/.local/share/Fonts
:P
(In all seriousness though, you can have infinitely complex folders in this file and it will find them, so do take care in putting all of your fonts in there, organised)
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mkdir -p -/.local/share/fonts
cp -/Downloads/-.-ttf,otf- -/.local/share/Fonts
:P
(In all seriousness though, you can have infinitely complex folders in this file and it will find them, so do take care in putting all of your fonts in there, organised)
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