Installing Fonts in Zorin

General Help
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I had planned on installing my font library yesterday "Font-Freitag",
but it got pushed forward 1 day to "Font-Samstag".

Plugged in the external drive, opened the Font folder..
then realised there is no destination Font folder in Zorin (or LInux overall),
so I started right-clicking each font -- took 'Open with Fonts', and hit Install. Very Easy albeit mind-numbingly slow and repetitive.

In Windows I would Select All in the external Fonts folder > copy > then paste into Windows' Font folder. Any matching fonts already installed triggers a popup window: 'skip or replace font', which can be applied to All.
This ability saves lorry-loads of time and key strokes.

I'm only guessing there is no similar method in Linux, so I hope I'm mistaken.

Thus far -- I've installed all fonts begining with A, and I've already been at it for hours, with 1000s more fonts to install.

Anyone keen on saving my mouse-clicking finger from RSI is very welcome to reveal their secrets.

Ta!

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Install Font Management from Synaptic. Then it should be easy. Itcs why I prefer Plasma as font management is present by default.

3

Brilliant

is there a Terminal command for that, or just to browse through software.

Thanks!

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This happens in GnuLinux File managers, as well. You can select all folder contents, then copy all in batch and paste all in batch. You will got a pop up asking skip > Skip all > Replace file

Fonts are located either in /usr/share/fonts/truetype
or in your home directory ~.fonts
If you do not have a .fonts folder in home, you can just create it by right click > create new folder > name it .fonts

I do not mess with fonts very much at all, so I am less certain about the subfolders that carry the title and truetype files for the individual font.

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Thank you Aravisian! -- This makes a huge difference.

And now I finally know where the fonts folder is.

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After installing Font Manager in Synaptic..
I selected All in the Fonts folder -- selected the application
and I get a little window asking me to drag a font for viewing.
(it doesn't even work to drag 1 font).

Unfortunately, I cannot get Font Manager to work.

SIDE NOTE >

Since Synaptic was installed.. I constantly get a popup asking for a password.
Why on earth am I suddenly getting password requests for everything, including Terminal, and how can I turn the bloody thing off?