I have a SLIGHTLY better understanding of fonts now ! Maybe I should say "font FAMILIES" !
I wanted to make the list of fonts to choose from much shorter in applications like LibreOffice Writer and Thunderbird. I decided that I did not need the Noto family of fonts.
I wanted to make the list of fonts to choose from much shorter in applications like LibreOffice Writer and Thunderbird. I decided that I did not need the Noto family of fonts.
- system wide fonts live in /usr/share/fonts/*
- noto fonts (directory) lives in the truetype subdirectory
- move the noto directory to someplace else outside of /usr/share/fonts/*
- clean up the font cache
Code:
~:$ sudo fc-cache -f -vStatistics: Posted by theoldwizard1 — Sun Feb 22, 2026 12:27 am