Remove unused fonts in LibreOffice

olivir

Hi,

Until now, I used Font Manager to deactivate foreign languages fonts. Otherwise selecting the fonts I really want is a mess in LibreOffice. But, it doesn't work anymore, do you know why ? Is there another solution ?

brent

olivir Until now, I used Font Manager to deactivate foreign languages fonts. Otherwise selecting the fonts I really want is a mess in LibreOffice. But, it doesn't work anymore, do you know why ? Is there another solution ?

I never used (solus') font manager to deactivate anything in LibreOffice. I really need only 2-3 fonts if I compose.
Open fonts pull-down in document, hit the first three letters of font I want, then POOF there it is, no need to sort. And no mess at all for me.
That said there are a lot of language packs installed, I will agree with you.

Anyway I'm only writing for one reason. I had an idea for you.
Last time I installed a font the right way (eopkg/repo) it suddenly appeared in LibreWriter's pull-down font menu.

So...find the "master system list conf/config/library/whatever solus has" that Libre loads its fonts from.....and DELETE what you hate.
So when you populate LibreWriter, no more mess, no more fuss.
I'm sure its a sudo sys file but at least that would be the easy way to control the excess fonts you are complaining about.***
twocents

***edit: unless you can manually uninstall unwanted language packs/fonts which seems a small project but would be really efficient in the end. I like those projects. 😆

TraceyC

What desktop environment is this? I assume GNOME or Budgie?

olivir

It's Budgie.

TraceyC

You might try asking in the Budgie Support room in the Budgie Matrix space

TraceyC

The Budgie folks said the issue isn't in Budgie. @davidjharder and @EbonJaeger did some digging and found that it's a problem with the Font Manager package. We now have an open issue so we can look into it further.