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A simple font management application for GTK Desktop Environments
Font Manager is intended to provide a way for average users to easily manage desktop fonts, without having to resort to command line tools or editing configuration files by hand. While designed primarily with the Gnome Desktop Environment in mind, it should work well with other GTK desktop environments.
Font Manager is NOT a professional-grade font management solution.
- Preview and compare font files
- Activate or deactivate installed font families
- Automatic categorization based on font properties
- Google Fonts Catalog integration
- Integrated character map
- User font collections
- User font installation and removal
- User font directory settings
- User font substitution settings
- Desktop font settings (GNOME Desktop or compatible environments)
Font Manager is being translated using Weblate, a web tool designed to ease translating for both developers and translators.
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Please see Known Issues before installing.
Arch Linux users can install font-manager
from official repositories:
pacman -S font-manager
Fedora packages built from latest revision:
dnf copr enable jerrycasiano/FontManager
dnf install font-manager
Gentoo users may find font-manager
in ::pf4public Gentoo overlay
Ubuntu packages built from latest revision:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:font-manager/staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install font-manager
Fedora and Ubuntu users can also find extensions for Nautilus, Nemo and Thunar in the repositories.
The extension currently allows you to quickly preview font files by simply selecting them in the file manager while font-viewer is open and also adds an option to install font files in the file manager context menu.
The Thunar extension also has very basic bulk renamer support.
You'll need to ensure the following dependencies are installed:
meson >= 0.59
ninja
glib >= 2.62
vala >= 0.56
freetype2 >= 2.10
gtk -4.0 >= 4.12
json-glib-1.0 >= 1.5
libxml-2.0 >= 2.9.10
sqlite3 >= 3.35
gobject-introspection
yelp-tools (optional)
gettext (optional)
Google Fonts integration, which is enabled by default, requires the following libraries:
webkitgtk-6.0 >= 2.4
libsoup3 >= 3.2
If you wish to also build file manager extensions, you will need corresponding development libraries:
libnautilus-extension
libnemo-extension
thunar
Adwaita stylesheet support is available as a build option, which is disabled by default, if enabled you will need the Adwaita library installed:
libadwaita-1
You will also have to enable the option in the Interface section of the preference pane. Adwaita support is limited to styling, no other components are used at this time.
To build the application:
meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release build
cd build
ninja
To run the application without installing:
src/font-manager/font-manager
To install the application:
sudo ninja install
To uninstall:
sudo ninja uninstall
For a list of available build options:
meson configure
To change an option after the build directory has been configured:
meson configure -Dsome_option=true
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3.0 - see COPYING for details.
- Karl Pickett for getting the ball rolling with fontmanager.py
- The compare mode in Font Manager is modeled after gnome-specimen by Wouter Bolsterlee
- Font Manager makes use of data compiled for Fontaine by Edward H. Trager
- The character map in Font Manager is based on Gucharmap