There are a lot of extra fonts that all seem to look alike and just annoy me in the drop down list. Is there anyway I can erase them from the system?
Ubuntu – How to remove fonts that I never use, from libreoffice and linux in general
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Best Answer
You have several methods. I can list 4...
Firstly you can install font-manager with this command:
You can disable (So not remove! Disabling makes them disappear for you but other users on that system will still see them) fonts from here. This is what it looks like:
As an alternative have a search in Ubuntu Software Center for fonts and delete them from there.
None english fonts can be removed with this command:
Here is a list of all the font packages. You can add the font package name to the command above to include them for removal.
If at any time you remove a font that you want back just do a
And the indic fonts will be re-installed (ofc. change the package name to what you want).
Besides this you can look at
to see where fonts are stored. Normally this will be in 1 of these locations:
With admin privileges you can just remove them. They should then disappear from any location.