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| ======Fonts====== | ======Fonts====== | ||
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| ====Manually Installing Fonts as User==== | ====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: | Traditionally, you would also run this command: | ||
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| not strictly necessary for most things you will be doing with fonts. | 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: | 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 | 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 |
| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | 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 | directory you will take with you if you get a new computer. In both cases, your | ||
| font collection is sure to go with you. | font collection is sure to go with you. | ||
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