On 23 Jun 2003 11:50:27 -0400 Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:43, Peter Gasper wrote: > > Well, I have these large font directories and I have no idea where > > to start cleaning out unneeded fonts. I could just start deleting > > files, but I don't imagine thats the best way to go about it. > > > > So what is the proper way to remove fonts (their files) from a > > system which has fontconfig and freetype? > > You delete them. And then, when you are done, if you want to make > finding fonts a bit more efficient, you, as root, run 'fc-cache' > so that the indices are updated. I think he means "how do I know which ones to delete"? If the fonts were installed via a package manager for your distro you can try removing all font packages except those for your locale, for the "Western" locale (ISO8859-1) and maybe Unicode. If you manage your font dirs by hand, you should know that essential to X are only the 'fixed' and the 'cursor' fonts. They are usually found under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. However, everything will look ugly with just those two around. I myself have just the basic "Windows" TTF fonts, plus fixed+cursor, plus the Artwiz fonts. They make for about 6 MB and that's all. But I think we're getting offtopic. Peter, if you'd like more help please contact me privately, this is not really an issue to be discussed on this list. -- Ciprian Popovici
