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#1 2021-07-22 18:07:51
- NorPhi
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Keep noto-fonts out of font selection dialogs
I was wondering if there is a setting I've overlooked, that allows me to specify which fonts will show up in font selection dialogs.
I've installed noto-fonts to fulfill zooms dependency on ttf-fonts and it makes CJK easy. Unfortunately noto-fonts installs 500 something fonts of which most are specific to some obscure scripts, including some like Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiforme and linearB which have been dead and undecipherable for the better part of the last three millennia. Removing them by uninstalling noto-fonts, fiddling with pacman.conf and reinstalling with --asdeps seems like a hassle. I did that before but it reverted on occasion (maybe when pacman updates? Dunno). I would rather just tell the system to simply ignore them in font selection dialogs.
Withing font selection, most of those fonts are also displayed as placeholders but they work in Firefox (almost everything on this testpage I found is displayed correctly http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/unicod … -3-2.html). I don't intend on solving this issue if they keep out of the font selection but if you know how to solve this without much fuzz I am happy to hear that answer, too.
Minimal new install of arch, only installed nividia, Xorg, XFCE4, alsa-utils, pulseaudio, noto-fonts, noto-fontscjk, firefox, thunderbird and zoom afterwards. Barely changed any settings, I just needed a working PC for an interview but now I need to fix all that.
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#2 2021-07-22 20:00:00
- seth
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Re: Keep noto-fonts out of font selection dialogs
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#3 2021-07-22 20:41:44
- NorPhi
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Re: Keep noto-fonts out of font selection dialogs
Yes, I know about that, this is what I meant with fiddling with pacman.conf last time I followed this post (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1738474) but this is not what I want, I don't mind those fonts being installed, I just want to keep them out of font selection dialogs.
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#4 2021-07-22 20:50:23
- seth
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Re: Keep noto-fonts out of font selection dialogs
Fiddling with fontconfig… https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … fontconfig
You cannot "keep it out of dialogs", but if you reject the fonts, most dialogs™ won't see them either (nor does anything else in the system… well: most stuff)
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