Greetings, folks--
Does anyone have an idea on how to get rid of the extra fonts (for other alphabets, etc.) from GIMP in Linux Mint (Cinnamon)? I have Fonts Manager and those fonts disabled but they still show up in GIMP. Thanks in advance for any help!
Thanks, Ofnuts...
I am using Cinnamon instead of KDE, and I do have the font manager but no dice disabling them there. Now that I think about it, I had to add Font Manager myself and I do not know if it is doing anything!
05-19-2020, 04:44 PM (This post was last modified: 05-19-2020, 04:53 PM by rich2005.)
You could try the attached font-manager .deb (remember to un-zip it ) This is not the same as the fontmanager.app from the repo. A double click should start the package installer and pull in any missing dependencies. Take no notice of '..a newer version is available .. messages. see screenshot https://i.imgur.com/8qlskVw.jpg
In use: Once the fonts are scanned, Choose system and go down the list un-ticking the ones to disable. When you close font-manager log out and log back in to make effective. A list in Gimp rendered and much-much reduced. screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/GxU6jSa.jpg
05-19-2020, 07:11 PM (This post was last modified: 05-19-2020, 07:24 PM by petedecember.)
Thanks, Rich2005--
That is actually the font manager that I am using. No luck. Thanks though!
Edit: I added the PPA just to make sure. I do have the most recent version. although the website says that there is a .7.7 version. I have the .7.3 version.
05-19-2020, 08:19 PM (This post was last modified: 05-19-2020, 08:19 PM by rich2005.)
Strange how things vary. Those screenshots do come from a LM 17.1 admittedly not updated for some time and MATE DE I would not have thought that a Cinnamon version would be much different.
Have a look in ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/ for the file 78-Reject.conf file generated by Font-Manager. I will attach the one from that LM 17 installation for comparison, it might show some difference.
Thanks for your help, guys--
I looked into /etc/fonts. Yep, they are there, but I don't feel comfortable just blitzing some of them to see what happens. Part of that is because of the 78-Reject.conf file. Mine has more characters but fewer lines. I glanced through it and everything seemed to be the same. My guess is that the difference is all of the different fonts with longer names. They must have switched a lot of fonts between 17.1 and 19.1. Thanks again for the help. Let me know if anything else comes to mind, please!
Font-manager should work, Is the current installation the result of successive upgrades from LM 19.1 to LN 19.3 ? It could just be that font-manager is stuck. Try moving the 78-Reject.conf out of its folder as a backup. That restores font manager to all fonts active. Let font-manager make a new conf file.
Those earlier screenshots were LM 19.1 (not 17.1 my typo) MATE version. I have a lot of dev packages installed in that, so a brand new LM 19.03 Cinnamon install (VM)
Font-manager gets very slow when it comes to the Noto families of fonts. Something about those fonts. https://i.imgur.com/icbLed5.jpg
I un-ticked in two stages up to Noto - a log-out & back in then down the noto and the remainder.
05-20-2020, 06:37 PM (This post was last modified: 05-20-2020, 07:31 PM by petedecember.
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ARGH! Update Manager just "had a broken packet," and now my Font Manager is gone! Update Manager did say something about a broken packet, but when I used the Broken Filter in packet manager it said that there weren't any broken packages. I am just about to remove my 78-Reject.conf file and do a reboot...
EDIT: After removing the 78-Reject.conf file and rebooting, the fonts are still all in GIMP and the Font Manager is still missing. I will reinstall font manager and will post any changes.
EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions rich2005!
Thank-you again for the idea, rich2005: I reinstalled Font Manager and this time it worked. I was even able to figure out what fonts I wanted to disable by watching the font list in GIMP and hitting the font refresh button after I had gotten rid of some. The only problem now is that the font on my Chrome Browser is tiny.... ARGH!!
