Am 18.04.2016 um 18:15 schrieb Felix Miata:
Daniel Bauer composed on 2016-04-18 18:02 (UTC+0200):
I try to install approx. 600 fonts using system-settings->fonts. I can choose them, it goes thru "checking them", alerts for existing fonts (I choose skip automatically), asks for the root password with the first found new font and then crashes.
Exactly how are you trying to "install"? From which DE? Is this KDE's system settings?
Yes. Font Magement ("Schriftartenverwaltung"). Add new fonts. Are the fonts rpms? No.
TTF/OTF files all in the same location?
ttf, pfb, zip, otf, pcf.gz Most of them are fonts I bought decades ago or have from my former win98. I installed from this folder (that I copied since suse 7 or 8 to each new install) without any problem... If the latter, try breaking them into smaller grouped
locations before attempting to "install".
I tried to select only a few, but it crashes, too. As soon as it's more than one. To be sure, I just tried to install the "arial"-fonts and I get the message "We are really sorry but system settings said goodbye" (my free translation).
It crashes as soon as I choose more than 1 font.
I can install a single font, but then a message appears "actualizing fonts", and there it stays for ever...
Is it possible to install fonts on leap 42.1 somehow? (these are all fonts I have working installed on my 13.2)?
Fonts do not need to be "installed". It is sufficient to copy ttf, otf or other individual font files to /usr/local/share/fonts/ if you want them available globally, or ~/.local/share/fonts/ for an individual single user.
I remember long time ago that there was a fonts database or something like that, that had to be updated when copying font files to the systems fonts folders. Later this got automated and I just had to point kde's system settings (that in the beginning also had another name) to my saved fonts folder and click... In my 13.2 under /usr/local/share/fonts/ there are sub-directories for each letter a, b, c... I could rsync them to the laptop, but will the system and KDE then know about these fonts? This is why I used the KDE-tool... -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org