Impossible to remove fonts? - Printable Version

Impossible to remove fonts? - Printable Version

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Impossible to remove fonts? - Maple921 - 05-17-2025

Hi

I've been trying to start GIMP with a custom set of fonts, separate from my system, so I've been using a custom fontconfig path, with fonts.conf being:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>

  <dir>/home/maple/Apps/GIMP/GIMPFonts/Fonts</dir>

  <cachedir>/home/maple/.cache/fontconfig</cachedir>

</fontconfig>

My goal is to only have fonts from a certain folder show up in GIMP

I have found that I can remove all fonts except Monospace, Sans-serif, and Serif, and their variants, for a total of 12 fonts I cannot remove, plus the two I've been testing with, though the first 12 seem to be bugged.

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Does anyone know of a way to disable/remove these fonts?

This happens on GIMP 3.0.2 AppImage, Debian 12.10

RE: Impossible to remove fonts? - Ofnuts - 05-17-2025

Monospace, Sans-serif, and Serif are alias and default fonts, they point to one of the other fonts. They will always exist.

RE: Impossible to remove fonts? - Maple921 - 05-17-2025

Are there any ways to hide the aliases in settings or something similar? I can't seem to find anything on it

RE: Impossible to remove fonts? - Ofnuts - 05-18-2025

(05-17-2025, 08:32 PM)Maple921 Wrote: Are there any ways to hide the aliases in settings or something similar? I can't seem to find anything on it

These are defined at the system level through some fontconfig magic, and it seems that they cannot be removed.