If you use Gimp on a daily basis like I do sometime you want to make a statement with a font that does not come installed by default.
Here's how to add free fonts that will be available for use system-wide the easy way.
Download some fonts or all 1001 for free:
https://www.1001fonts.com/
Open your usr file manager, navigate to your dowloaded font, right click and use the command to Extract Here, or however they word it to extract the font to a folder of it's own in that Directory.
Open another instance of the file manager with root priveledges, . I like to use Xfe for these tasks and what I use as an example by summoning:
$ sudo xfe
Open Xfe to
/usr/share/fonts/
Place Xfe directly under your user folder showing the font. in the folder you etracted it to.
Drag and drop the font folder from your user File Manager to Xfe in that directory. It will not work doing it the opposite way.
Do it another 1001 times if you took that many fonts, but we're about done here.
Exit the root File manager,
Invoke the command:
$ rehash
Open Gimp and all your new fonts will be listed for use in Gimp, Firefox, etc. Careful with the fonts you use in thie other programs like Audacious..
That's all thsre is to it and easy as it gets. Unless you've never done it before and have yet to iestablish who is the Boss, you or the machine.
That's a seqway to the fancy font eample installed using this method to make the future a better place for us all, today
Here's how to add free fonts that will be available for use system-wide the easy way.
Download some fonts or all 1001 for free:
https://www.1001fonts.com/
Open your usr file manager, navigate to your dowloaded font, right click and use the command to Extract Here, or however they word it to extract the font to a folder of it's own in that Directory.
Open another instance of the file manager with root priveledges, . I like to use Xfe for these tasks and what I use as an example by summoning:
$ sudo xfe
Open Xfe to
/usr/share/fonts/
Place Xfe directly under your user folder showing the font. in the folder you etracted it to.
Drag and drop the font folder from your user File Manager to Xfe in that directory. It will not work doing it the opposite way.
Do it another 1001 times if you took that many fonts, but we're about done here.
Exit the root File manager,
Invoke the command:
$ rehash
Open Gimp and all your new fonts will be listed for use in Gimp, Firefox, etc. Careful with the fonts you use in thie other programs like Audacious..
That's all thsre is to it and easy as it gets. Unless you've never done it before and have yet to iestablish who is the Boss, you or the machine.
That's a seqway to the fancy font eample installed using this method to make the future a better place for us all, today
Statistics: Posted by Trihexagonal — 2024-02-06 22:35 — Replies 0 — Views 35