FreeBSD deleted manually installed fonts

jronald

jronald

manually created dir /usr/local/share/fonts/manually-installed
copied 2 files into it: SourceHanSans.ttc SourceHanSerif.ttc, which are downloaded from https://github.com/adobe-fonts

/usr/local/share/fonts/manually-installed # mkfontdir

then the web browser can't be opend, when tried again, os stuck, have to reboot it by power off & on
after rebooting, no file in /usr/local/share/fonts/manually-installed

as a sideeffect, ibus-pinyin doesn't work properly now, in "preference", input methed can't be added, shortcut can't be congiured, in face nothing can be configured in the prerefence gui dialog :(
 
I have manually installed fonts many times to use with graphics/gimp and have 100 or so saved in regular folders. The correct place to copy the folder to is /usr/local/share/fonts. The font is ready for immediate use with Gimp after I run # rehash and never had them disappear after a reboot.

This FreeBSD wallpaper was made using a font I added and available on my site:

truelove.png

The only problem I've ever had was a tendency for x11-fm/xfe to freeze when transferring the folder and needed to kill it as root from top. I just start it back up and continue on as needed.
 
T-Daemon said:
After that have you added the created font directory to the font path?

# xset fp+ /usr/local/share/fonts/manually-installed
# xset fp rehash

or set in a xorg configuration file

Code: 
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/manually-installed”

5.5. Using Fonts in Xorg
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I'll try later, no FreeBSD at hand. The OS should not freeze if no xset fp+ ..., right?
 
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