Find a font using its name.

TruongAn · 02-01-2011, 10:29 AM

I have many fonts in my system that I've never used. I want to remove some of them but I don't know where were they. Is there command to list or find a font using its name?
For example with the input

Code:

Liberation Mono

I want to find

Code:

/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf

darkduck · 02-01-2011, 11:04 AM

in KDE you can look at ~/.fonts

TruongAn · 02-01-2011, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkduck

in KDE you can look at ~/.fonts

~/.fonts contains only fonts installed by me myself. I know these fonts, both their font name and file name. I want to search for fonts system-wide, all directory listed in /etc/fonts/font.conf ? That's quite a lot of directories and a lot of fonts, and that's where my trouble begin

frankbell · 02-01-2011, 09:29 PM

BEGIN EDIT

You must have been writing your post as I was writing mine.

Most Linux distros store fonts in /usr/share/fonts and its subdirectories.

To find them, you could try as root "locate *.ttf"; this would search for truetype fonts.

END EDIT

Just delete the *.ttf files from /usr/share/fonts (or from /usr/share/fonts/ttf or from /usr/share/fonts/truetype or whatever your distro calls it).

If you want to be careful, move them somewhere else where you can delete them later.

Then run fc-cache.