#1 2017-10-11 16:24:05

ShieldedTulip

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2017-09-30

Posts: 16

New fonts... can't get them to work.

Hi,

So,

I downloaded some new fonts because I needed some "untidy" ones, placed them on my fonts file, etc... etc... you know. I did the same any old Ubuntu user would do.

But they would not be available for me on LibreOffice.

So I also downloaded FontForge and Font Manager. Used the manager to install the fonts, it all went fine, but...

But they would still not be available for me on LibreOffice.

I even tried messing about with the terminal and it still wont work.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I know I must be doing something wrong because the machine is always right when it comes to such things.

Any hints for a really not so smart person? At least that's how I feel today.

Thanks

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Coding Idiot (is how I describe myself) in need of plain simple and to the point coding tips. Know nearly nothing about how, where or when things are done.
Only thing I know/remember from coding classes - sudo apt-get install - today discovered how to edit a couple of lines in tint2 (1st victory - ;D) and then my brain froze.
Hoping that around here I'll find simple help, simple like my knowledge.

unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 2,709

Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

Because of Conky I always move the unpacked fonts to my hidden directory 
/home/unklar/.fonts
(if necessary create them    ).

root does it with the command

fc-cache -v -f

with the system known and they are available to me as a user.
I don't know if this is true for LO, because I don't use the program.

ShieldedTulip

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2017-09-30

Posts: 16

Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

Errr, I don't think I'm kidding when I say I'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to these things... restarted the computer and now they're there.

I did actually create the directories, via terminal and all, as you suggested, but before I restarted the laptop nothing was happening.

Thank you so much

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Coding Idiot (is how I describe myself) in need of plain simple and to the point coding tips. Know nearly nothing about how, where or when things are done.
Only thing I know/remember from coding classes - sudo apt-get install - today discovered how to edit a couple of lines in tint2 (1st victory - ;D) and then my brain froze.
Hoping that around here I'll find simple help, simple like my knowledge.

johnraff

nullglob

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 12,666

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Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

The current standard location for user fonts is ~/.local/share/fonts
~/.fonts is still supported by most software, but this may change in the future.

(Bunsenlabs comes with both a ~/.local/share/fonts directory and a symlink to it at ~/.fonts, so either will work.)

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From: squirrels' nest

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 537

Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

restarted the computer and now they're there.

That's a LibreOffice bug. Most other applications see new fonts after fc-cache magic spell, LO does not.

Snap

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 465

Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

Regarding fonts-conf, according to this:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fo … -user.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fo … figuration

Paths have changed, but not in Debian (at least not in Sid with fontconfig 2.12.3) Why Debian keeps using the old paths instead. Is this transitory or just ignoring the new defaults for some reason? Though I agree the new paths are awful. i. e. ~/fontconfig instead of ~/.fontconfig or even better ~/.config/fontconfig.

ohnonot

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

new paths are awful. i. e. ~/fontconfig

i think you're misreading something there?
nowhere in those 2 links do i see that.
maybe you are confusing $XDG_CONFIG_HOME with $HOME ? the former usually defaults to $HOME/.config

but in any case, the fonts themselves are stored and searched for in a different location, ~/.fonts or ~/.local/share/fonts. the usual advice is to symlink one location to the other, so you should be set for all apps adhering to either old or new rules.

Snap

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 465

Re: New fonts... can't get them to work.

Ooops! True. I thought $XDG_CONFIG_HOME was pointing to $HOME.

Thanks for clarifying, ohnonot.