On 10/29/10 3:59 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:08:20 -0400 > Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo: > >> If you're using KDE or Gnome, try following the instructions in the >> manual about managing fonts (p 185-186). You also might try fontmatrix >> for font management. > > The instructions in the Scribus manual are just for installing fonts. > Unfortunately I know that very well. Too well, as evidently I have > installed some fonts more than once. :) > > I have long had Fontmatrix installed, but it is not very stable for me. > Just now I tried it, but it does not have the ability to delete a font > file. It does display duplicates, although you have to scroll through > manually. Once you find a duplicate you can deactivate one of them, but > the duplicate file remains in whatever folder it was in. Once I find a > duplicate with Fontmatrix I can delete the duplicate font file with > Nautilus or the command line, but then Fontmatrix crashes. > > I was hoping to get just a list of duplicates so I could quickly go > into the folder and delete them. Most of the duplicates are font files > that are in /usr/share/fonts and duplicated in ~/.fonts. I am the only > user of this computer, so I would just delete the duplicate files in > ~/.fonts. > > It's not a critical thing. The duplicate font files don't seem to cause > any problems (except maybe for Fontmatrix). I just like to keep things > tidy. >
Try fc-cache -fv as root, then restart the applications. This refreshes fontconfig's font cache. Sometimes this can fix "duplicates" HTH. Peter
