Thanks. In a way I meant both. But I really had no clue what to do so I was just looking for anything to get me started. Sorry if this wasn't the appropriate list to ask this question but I was unable to find what I needed elsewhere. Again, thanks. Pete Gasper On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:15, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > 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. -- Peter Gasper <pgasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
