no such file or directory, eveb tried ‘.fonts’ and when in the folder with .font(s) visible and even inside the folder, even tried upen in terminal and nothing?
Not 100% sure what you’re saying there … first you suggest there IS no ~/.font directory, then you seem to suggest you entered it ???
Is there a (hidden) .font directory in your Home directory ?
ls -a ~/
Is there anything in it ?
In defense of pooky2483 the previous command had a typo in it.
Should have been:
ls -a ~/.fonts
Oops … My apologies :-[
I see the bored admin is now mistakenly making typo’s. 
Careful … I just may suggest a search to see who’s made the most mistakes 
Though I suppose there’s a risk I’d loose that too :o
still the same error :o
Thats a mistake there… You mean WIN it!
He has more posts than me, it is most likely he would lose haha.
Pooky, you can make a “.fonts” if it’s not there. I know I had too in Peppermint.
OK, smart Alec, maybe I should have said “search to see who’s made the LEAST mistakes” … but when I said “I suppose there’s a risk I’d loose that too”, how do you know I didn’t mean that I’d loose in a competition of who made the most mistakes (meaning I made the fewest errors) C:-) … ahaaaa, get out of that one
What exactly is
ls -a ~/.fonts
trying to do?
It just lists the files contained in .fonts directory
for clues as to what a given command does and the commands options etc. … see its man (manual) page … or its info page … as in:
man ls
or
info ls
or
man sudo
or
info sudo
etc.
Dont ask me what I did as I didnt do anything and it just worked now;
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ ls -a ~/.fonts
. adam_gorry_inline.otf Aldo_Open.otf
… adam_gorry_lights.otf AleksandraC_regular.otf
20db.otf Aerolite Bold Italic.otf AleksandraC_vintage.otf
abeatbyKaiRegular.otf Aerolite Bold.otf Alex.otf
acid_bold_italic.otf Aerolite Italic.otf Alido.otf
acid_bold.otf Aerolite.otf helvetica
acid_italic.otf Aerolite Sky Italic.otf Library
ACIDL___.otf Aerolite Sky.otf My_fonts
acid_medium_italic.otf After_Disaster.otf Read Me.txt
acid_medium.otf AlbertTextBold.otf vibocentric
acid.otf Alcefun.otf
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$
OK, if font-manager is still NOT working … first lets see if renaming the ~/.fonts directory then updating the font cache will make it work
(this will effectively remove the fonts you added … we can put them back … but it will tell us if it is something in that directory that is causing the problem)
With font-manager CLOSED, run:
mv -v ~/.fonts ~/.fonts-backup
now run:
sudo fc-cache -fv
NOW open font-manager and see if it works.
If it works … we may have to add those fonts one at a time till we find the broken one.
You can get back to where you were by running:
mv -v ~/.fonts-backup ~/.fonts
then
sudo fc-cache -fv
The fonts I added are in ‘.fonts/My_fonts’
Thats gonna take a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time, I’ve got over 3000 fonts :o
As has previously been mentioned … if you can’t be bothered … just uninstall font-manager, it’s not necessary anyway
But no harm in checking that’s where the problem lies
Up to you.
[EDIT]
Quick question … where did you get the fonts ? … copied directly from a Windows PC ?
3000+ fonts, are you a professional author, or do you just have a font fetish … does Garamond/Helvetica/Ariel turn you on or something
I've got over 3000 fonts
Wow… Then I thought that my son was “Mr. Fontman”. ???
Have done
Got them from here http://www.dafont.com/
[QUOTE]3000+ fonts, are you a professional author, or do you just have a font fetish … does Garamond/Helvetica/Ariel turn you on or something
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PMSL
Nah, just got loads and I’m slowly going thru them and keeping the ones I really want