Adding Fonts

[Darren Critchley]

Bastian Doetsch wrote:

>>I have attempted to add a couple of TTF fonts that I need for an app 
>>using the method above, however, it does not work.
>>Looking at it, it is clearly a permissions issue, all of the files in 
>>fonts:/// are owned by root and have the little lock symbol on them, so 
>>when I try to drag and drop a new font from the desktop, it won't let me.
>>
>>Is there another method of doing this?
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>try "sudo -H nautilus" and then ctrl-l and enter "fonts:///" . Worked
>for me...
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I'm afraid that did not do it either!
In the end, I had to copy them to my /home/usrname/.fonts directory and 
then run fc-cache

I did find a how to for Gnome in general at 
http://linux.org.mt/article/ttfonts but, the tool ttmkfdir does not seem 
to exist on Ubuntu.

Have you installed fonts recently with the method you show above? Just 
wondering if any recent changes would make it not work on my Laptop.

Darren