Monday, November 19th, 2007

Font Cache Generation on Ubuntu

I'm not sure about this [I could be wrong], but I seem to remember Feisty would automagically make available any fonts whenever I installed them in my personal fonts directory. Gutsy doesn't seem to do this, at least not on any of my systems.

I've been using the following terminal command to update the font cache manually:

fc-cache -rv

My first thought was that I'd managed to knacker something whilst playing with some new font packages. However, I've now noticed the same on multiple Gutsy installations and I'm beginning to doubt whether Feisty really did do what I think it did. Has anyone else noticed this?

Tagged with: fonts, ubuntu


2 Responses to “Font Cache Generation on Ubuntu”

  1. Derek Buranen wrote,

    For me, I download a .ttf, fire up nautilus to fonts:/, drag and drop the .ttf.

    When I open Gimp next time, the new font is there. Sounds like your system got goofy somehow.

  2. Philip wrote,

    @Derek: Thanks, I've tried this method and it works. However, I've got a shell script that syncs my fonts between systems and it used to just work without having run fc-cache. It's not a big problem as I've now added the command to the script. I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed this or whether it was just me!?

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