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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You know you can just download arbitrary ttf files to ~/.fonts

You don't need to install them system wide. That's where my Comic Sans and Gnommish fonts live

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Except ~/.fonts isn't XDG Base Directory compliant. You should put them in ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/fonts instead so as to not pollute your home directory with dotfiles.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait isn't the effect the same as both are hidden directories?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Using the spec makes it simpler to deal with backups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

True, I tried to customize a sddm theme and you need fonts installed likewise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

that's very selfish. what if your SO wants to use comic sans? smh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm aroace. What SO?