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 ======Fonts======
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 ====Manually Installing Fonts as User====
-To install fonts into a user's home folder, place a font file into a directory (it may or may not yet exist) ''~/.fonts''.
+To install fonts into a user's home folder, place a font file into a directory (it may or may not yet exist) ''~/.local/share/fonts''.
 Traditionally, you would also run this command:
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 not strictly necessary for most things you will be doing with fonts.
-To install a font that has been packaged up by someone else (from Fedora or Slackbuilds.org, for instance) then the package's default behaviour will be to install the font to the system. To override that behaviour, treat the package as exactly what it is: a tarball (archive). Instead of installing the package, just un-tar it and move the ttf or otf files to your .fonts folder. You can do this in the GUI or in the shell.
+To install a font that has been packaged up by someone else (from Fedora or Slackbuilds.org, for instance) then the package's default behaviour will be to install the font to the system. To override that behaviour, treat the package as exactly what it is: a tarball (archive). Instead of installing the package, just un-tar it and move the ttf or otf files to your personal fonts folder. You can do this in the GUI or in the shell.
-Since the ''.fonts'' directory is hidden, it can be difficult to access from Dolphin. There are several ways to access a hidden directory from Dolphin but the easiest is to press ''alt .'' (that's the ''Alt'' key and a dot) to reveal all hidden folders, and then navigate to ''.fonts''.
+Since the ''~/.local/share/fonts'' directory is hidden, it can be difficult to access from Dolphin. There are several ways to access a hidden directory from Dolphin but the easiest is to press ''alt .'' (that's the ''Alt'' key and a dot) to reveal all hidden folders, and then navigate to ''~/.local/share/fonts''.
 In the shell, you can extract just the ''ttf'' files and move them to the appropriate font directory:
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 ttf-foo-font-1.0/ttf/foo.ttf
-$ tar xf ttf*foo*tgz foo.ttf > ~/.fonts/f/foo.ttf
+$ tar xf ttf*foo*tgz foo.ttf > ~/.local/share/fonts/f/foo.ttf
-$ tar xf ttf*foo*tgz foo\ bold.ttf > ~/.fonts/f/foo_bold.ttf
+$ tar xf ttf*foo*tgz foo\ bold.ttf > ~/.local/share/fonts/f/foo_bold.ttf
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-The advantage to this is that ''.fonts'' is located in your home directory, which
+The advantage to this is that ''~/.local/share/fonts'' is located in your home directory, which is, presumably, the directory you most often backup, and it is certainly the
-is, presumably, the directory you most often backup, and it is certainly the
 directory you will take with you if you get a new computer. In both cases, your
 font collection is sure to go with you.
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 may, therefore, behoove you to familiarise yourself with the fonts you own, and
 only install fonts you actually want on your system.
-{{ fontmanage.jpg }}
 Of course with 2455+ fonts available on your system, familiarising yourself
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 KDE includes. along with its desktop and rich set of applications. an inbuilt **Font Management**. With it, you can group fonts together by arbitrary classifications, and activate or deactivate fonts either individually or by group, so that applications either load or ignore them upon launch.
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 Font Matrix is stand-alone font manager available from [[http://slackbuilds.org]], that lets you preview your fonts, tag and classify fonts, search through them by various attributes (including by submitting a screenshot sample of a font you want to match), and activate or de-activate fonts so that applications will either load or ignore them upon
 launch.
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