Hack - new font

[richb]

One I can think of is it does not impose your choice on other users. Question: How does the font selection dialogue pick them up in the home folder?

[eugen-b]

I forgot to mention that it has some advantages to install a font in your home folder.

I've always wondered about this...what are the advantages to putting it here instead of a /usr/share/fonts folder?

I think more psychological that I have "clean" deb packages in system folders and "dirty" custom things in my home folder. It also helps when installing a new system. Then I don't need to search all my themes, icons, fonts again.

[Paul..]

Got it. Thanks, guys.

[smilliken]

Can't you just use the System Settings>Fonts and install thru there to manage where it goes? (KDE of course)

[richb]

Talking about XFCE.

[smilliken]

Can you use Font Manager to get them to the right location without going thru a lot of work?

[richb]

Can you use Font Manager to get them to the right location without going thru a lot of work?

I did not have font manager installed and it looks like that would work quite easily.

[eugen-b]

Can you use Font Manager to get them to the right location without going thru a lot of work?

Try and report! :)
I only can report, how easy it is manually. Create ~/.fonts folder, download a zip with the font, extract .ttf file to ~/.fonts folder, run command fc-cache -vf as regular user.
Alternatively you can extract to /usr/share/fonts/...
I don't like this solution that much, I would prefer to install a package with fonts from Synaptic. But there are too many fonts to create a package for each of them, I guess.
PS: I didn't invent the instructions, they were in the zip archive. Ooops, no, they weren't, but I looked them up on the Arch Wiki.