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./font-nexus -h
Font-Nexus [https://github.com/Arcitec/font-nexus]

Usage: "./font-nexus" [ARGS]

Available arguments:
  -b         Perform a clean build before the installation.
  -i         Install the fonts (system-wide by default, unless modified by another flag).
  -l         Install to local home-path (~/.local/share/fonts) instead.
  -p <path>  Install to custom path instead (a "font-nexus" sub-dir is automatically created).
  -h         Display help.

./font-nexus -h
Font-Nexus [https://github.com/Arcitec/font-nexus]

Usage: "./font-nexus" [ARGS]

Available arguments:
  -b         Perform a clean build before the installation.
  -i         Install the fonts (system-wide by default, unless modified by another flag).
  -l         Install to local home-path (~/.local/share/fonts) instead.
  -p <path>  Install to custom path instead (a "font-nexus" sub-dir is automatically created).
  -h         Display help.

So if you wanted to add it to your local user if it wasn't part of your custom uBlue image, you could just do ./font-nexus -b -l now (to use the standardized ~/.local/share/fonts path), or ./font-nexus -b -p ~/.fonts if you like the old-school path. This is sure to make @j0rge more happy, since it provides a method to add them to existing systems without modifying the uBlue images. ❤️ 🧐 Edit: There's now a release zip for easier downloading without having to clone the repo (https://github.com/Arcitec/font-nexus/releases/latest).

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bsherman•2y ago

sad panda

Missing "source/windows/Fonts/SegoeIcons.ttf" for group "win11". Please fix your source Fonts directory, and ensure that it comes from a fully updated Windows 11 installation.

Missing "source/windows/Fonts/SegoeIcons.ttf" for group "win11". Please fix your source Fonts directory, and ensure that it comes from a fully updated Windows 11 installation.

i have windows 11... legit and updated oooooh it's case sensitive

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Oi. Why is your file named incorrectly? 😮

bsherman•2y ago

because i mounted the windows partition from linux, and by default it mounts case insensitive ntfs

ArcitecOP•2y ago

I used a VM, just went to C:\Windows, right-clicked Fonts and picked "Compress" and it placed Fonts.zip on the desktop, then moved that to Linux. All name cases were preserved 🙂

bsherman•2y ago

this is my dual boot drive 🙂

ArcitecOP•2y ago

I am aware of a method to extract the fonts from a windows .iso too, thought about adding it but seems like hassle, because they are inside two layers -> .iso -> install.win -> windows/fonts You may be able to extract the fonts from the ISO if that's convenient, maybe with 7zip

bsherman•2y ago

yeah, so i'll either reboot and grab a zip file or get the ntfs mount options correct question: why require 7zip? doesn't this just use zip format?

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Yeah, reboot seems fine and easy. Just right-click Fonts and pick Compress, windows will place a zip o nteh desktop. 🙂 7zip is required for the Apple DMG format

bsherman•2y ago

ahhhh

ArcitecOP•2y ago

And the Apple PKG format too ^^

bsherman•2y ago

i wonder if my mac is updated new enough to have the SF fonts

ArcitecOP•2y ago

In 2020 they changed to the most modern SF fonts

bsherman•2y ago

nope LOL i'm too old

ArcitecOP•2y ago

If you have issues building this, just make a fedora container and build it in there 🙂 If you dont hve 7zip on teh host It will grab the apple fonts from apple's developer site btw

bsherman•2y ago

hah, i didn't read down to line 226 stopped at process windows from local directory

ArcitecOP•2y ago

🙂 I wish I could do the same for Windows fonts but MS changes URLs too often and their ISOs are huge Windows is the only part that requires a manual copy.

bsherman•2y ago

no problem rebooted already but... i am curious why 7z not working i install p7zip

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Use the install command from the readme.md 🙂 It's called p7zip-plugins

bsherman•2y ago

all complain that no one reads docs and then we don't either

ArcitecOP•2y ago

haha 😄 no problem 7zip is a bit messy but is a powerhouse for unpacking all kinds of esoteric formats, so I added it to my own uBlue image After you build the output/ directory, you can simply copy that to other computers for instant installation there.

bsherman•2y ago

FYI - using python3 instead of python is a bit more universal some python3 packages won't provide a symlink for simply python

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Hmm yeah I will do that change. I forgot because I use some python manager (pyenv) that names the installed one python

 ~  which python3
~/.pyenv/shims/python3
 ~  which python 
~/.pyenv/shims/python

 ~  which python3
~/.pyenv/shims/python3
 ~  which python 
~/.pyenv/shims/python

All good actually Will switch that now

bsherman•2y ago

yep, i use pyenv too 🙂 it's pretty nice

ArcitecOP•2y ago

It's hot sauce 🙂 I love being able to override fedora's outdated stuff

bsherman•2y ago

lol python 3.11.3 is outdated?

ArcitecOP•2y ago

No but thats because F38 just released a month ago 😄 Wait 5-10 months 😄 Then it will feel old

bsherman•2y ago

yeah, so even booted to windows, those segoe fonts are still lower cased

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Interesting, that's very unexpected but it is possible that you installed it from an old Win10 or something and hten Microsoft changed the case, but since NTFS is case-insensitive the old case is kept. So I can code something that treats every filename as lowercase instead, and scans the folder. If you can wait 30 minutes since I am eating. 😄

bsherman•2y ago

yeah, no worries, i'm capable of working around a lot, but this is giving you feedback on how your script is working in other environments

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Yeah it's useful. Anonfiles works if you want something that works immediately in the meantime

bsherman•2y ago

nope, i'm patient 🙂 sometimes

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Hehe 🙂 I will get started on it now, might take a little bit since I have the idea of fixing the case of the orphaned files.

bsherman•2y ago

fix whatever you want, happy to test

ArcitecOP•2y ago

@bsherman I did a bunch of small tweaks first (pushed), just got started on the case-sensitivity issue and I'd say it's like 20 minutes from finishing. @bsherman I've done thorough testing and pushed it. It'll write the filenames to their correct, up-to-date names when it copies even from your "messy" source. 🙂 You'll have to clone for the latest code, I am preparing the release after your results are in. 🙂

bsherman•2y ago

k, checking it out now

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Excellent 🙂

bsherman•2y ago

huh

ls -l sego*
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 168404 Dec  7  2019 segoepr.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 167800 Dec  7  2019 segoeprb.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 596948 Dec  7  2019 segoesc.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 581252 Dec  7  2019 segoescb.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 955804 Dec  7  2019 segoeui.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 951724 Dec  7  2019 segoeuib.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 529712 Dec  7  2019 segoeuii.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 913712 Dec  7  2019 segoeuil.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 854140 Dec  7  2019 segoeuisl.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 541468 Dec  7  2019 segoeuiz.ttf

ls -l sego*
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 168404 Dec  7  2019 segoepr.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 167800 Dec  7  2019 segoeprb.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 596948 Dec  7  2019 segoesc.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 581252 Dec  7  2019 segoescb.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 955804 Dec  7  2019 segoeui.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 951724 Dec  7  2019 segoeuib.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 529712 Dec  7  2019 segoeuii.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 913712 Dec  7  2019 segoeuil.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 854140 Dec  7  2019 segoeuisl.ttf
-rw-r--r--. 1 benjamin benjamin 541468 Dec  7  2019 segoeuiz.ttf

ArcitecOP•2y ago

yeah?

bsherman•2y ago

it's not just that they are lower case... they are actually the 8.3 versions of the filename

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Oh Did you dual-boot to get them via Windows?

bsherman•2y ago

yeah, probably hard for you to fix that yes, that's from a zip file i made in windows OH! LOL because it's windows 10

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Those 8.3 files make no sense Ohhh You can tweak 1 thing to force yourself to use win10 fonts

bsherman•2y ago

i do have windows 11 on a different machine

ArcitecOP•2y ago

I would recommend win11 instead It's newer versions

bsherman•2y ago

but i imagine you could run into this again but yeah, wow, i feel silly LOL

ArcitecOP•2y ago

def process_microsoft(windows_version: int = 11) -> int

def process_microsoft(windows_version: int = 11) -> int

It takes an argument, you can change the last lines of build.py to put a (10) there

bsherman•2y ago

i'll do that to test

ArcitecOP•2y ago

I added it just in case but I don't imagine that people want old fonts so it's not exposed 😄

bsherman•2y ago

and i'll get win11 booted on the other machine, and test that out sometime

ArcitecOP•2y ago

I've never tried it with win10 btw so this will be interesting

bsherman•2y ago

i've wondered about upgrading to win11 finally, but really, i just like using linux a lot better windows only still exists on my machine for edge cases, like... if i really can't get a game to work, or what to try some VR thing

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Win11 is better, it's just annoying how they try to force you to get a Microsoft account 😄

bsherman•2y ago

it may be "better" now... but 9 months ago i was unhappy with laggy UI performance, but i think they've fixed some of that

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Btw, even if the case-sensitivity issue was really just that the files came from Win10, I don't see the implementation as wasted, because now it's fully case-insensitive and it cleans up the target filename, so it's more robust either way 😄 Yeah Win11 was awful at launch

bsherman•2y ago

i did this:

$ git diff
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index b6d8b5a..b2d8dd1 100644
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ time_start = time.time()

 rmtree(OUTPUT_PATH)  # Remove any leftover files.
 output_size = 0
-output_size += process_microsoft()
+output_size += process_microsoft(10)
 output_size += process_apple()
 rmtree(TEMP_PATH)
 print(f"Output font size (Total): {bytes_to_mib(output_size)}.\n")

$ git diff
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index b6d8b5a..b2d8dd1 100644
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ time_start = time.time()

 rmtree(OUTPUT_PATH)  # Remove any leftover files.
 output_size = 0
-output_size += process_microsoft()
+output_size += process_microsoft(10)
 output_size += process_apple()
 rmtree(TEMP_PATH)
 print(f"Output font size (Total): {bytes_to_mib(output_size)}.\n")

that's nice and easy could be an override from the shell script

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Oh yeah I noticed 1 more thing, when you try Win10 files you will also need to pass the environment variable, as seen at bottom of README.md, the groups are named win10,win10_other.

bsherman•2y ago

yep env WINDOWS_FONT_GROUPS="win10,win10_other" ./font-nexus -b

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Yeah, any luck with that? 🙂

bsherman•2y ago

Output font size (Microsoft): 59.86 MiB. it worked!

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Perfect, I'll make two changes, to make it auto-select the win10 versions of those groups, and make it possible to specify the windows version.

bsherman•2y ago

sounds good true confessions though, i don't think i'll use the "fancy" fonts for UI interfaces... though, I'm probably going to change my gnome defaults from Cantarell to Noto

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Yeah. You'll get better rendering of websites and documents, that's the main benefit

bsherman•2y ago

i'm mildly annoyed that this font stuff nerd-sniped me lol but i allow one a week, so this has to be it for the week https://github.com/bsherman/ublue-custom/commit/cd0b4bada4a024c5863e2bba4d6dfd8798667de9

bsherman•2y ago

I've used Hack before, but I decided to try it again after chosing it with hiden font names on test: https://www.codingfont.com/

Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

bsherman•2y ago

i used Hack back when i was coding on a Mac

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Hack back on a Mac 😄 Yeah, I used to look at and try so many fonts, until SF Pro and SF Mono. Now I'm settled for a year 😄

bsherman•2y ago

i had been settled on Fira Code for the last few years... not sure why i tried JetBrainsMono again

ArcitecOP•2y ago

@bsherman https://github.com/Arcitec/font-nexus/releases/latest There we go, you're set. 🙂 Latest release has a secret env var, since I don't recommend using older fonts but definitely agree that it should be doable!

env WINDOWS_VERSION=10 ./font-nexus -b

env WINDOWS_VERSION=10 ./font-nexus -b

Thanks for all the help finding these win10 compatibility things, so they're out of the way now. 🙂 Agreed, Fira Code is awesome 🙂

bsherman•2y ago

sweet! nice tool! good work

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Thanks. 🙂 Glad to help. I used to be crazy about creating shell aliases and was against making tools. You know all that code where it performs downloads of Apple fonts? I used to have this alias instead. Not even joking, I used this for a year. But when I wanted to get rid of LPF (a Fedora tool that grabs old MS fonts from 2002), and wanted to install the freshest Microsoft fonts instead, I decided it's finally time to escape from shell aliases. 😄

alias apple-fonts-update="sudo dnf -y in p7zip p7zip-plugins wget rsync && mkdir -p ~/Code/ThirdParty/Fonts/Apple-Fonts && cd ~/Code/ThirdParty/Fonts/Apple-Fonts && wget -q -O - https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ | grep -Eo 'http[^\\\"]+?\.dmg' | xargs wget --timestamping && rm -rf ./extract && for f in *.dmg; do 7z e -o./extract -ir'!*Fonts.pkg' -aoa \"\$f\"; done && for f in extract/*.pkg; do 7z e -so \"\$f\" 'Payload~' > \"\$f.payload\"; done && for f in extract/*.payload; do 7z l \"\$f\" && 7z e -o./extract/fonts -ir'!*.otf' -ir'!*.ttf' -aoa \"\$f\"; done && rm -rfv ./extract/fonts/SF-Pro-{Text,Display}*.otf ./extract/fonts/NewYork{Small,Medium,Large,ExtraLarge}*.otf ./extract/fonts/SF-Compact-{Text,Display}*.otf && sudo rsync -av --no-p --no-o --no-g --chmod=ugo=rwX --delete --mkpath ./extract/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/apple-fonts/ && rm -rf ./extract && sudo restorecon -RFv /usr/share/fonts/apple-fonts && sudo fc-cache -v"

alias apple-fonts-update="sudo dnf -y in p7zip p7zip-plugins wget rsync && mkdir -p ~/Code/ThirdParty/Fonts/Apple-Fonts && cd ~/Code/ThirdParty/Fonts/Apple-Fonts && wget -q -O - https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ | grep -Eo 'http[^\\\"]+?\.dmg' | xargs wget --timestamping && rm -rf ./extract && for f in *.dmg; do 7z e -o./extract -ir'!*Fonts.pkg' -aoa \"\$f\"; done && for f in extract/*.pkg; do 7z e -so \"\$f\" 'Payload~' > \"\$f.payload\"; done && for f in extract/*.payload; do 7z l \"\$f\" && 7z e -o./extract/fonts -ir'!*.otf' -ir'!*.ttf' -aoa \"\$f\"; done && rm -rfv ./extract/fonts/SF-Pro-{Text,Display}*.otf ./extract/fonts/NewYork{Small,Medium,Large,ExtraLarge}*.otf ./extract/fonts/SF-Compact-{Text,Display}*.otf && sudo rsync -av --no-p --no-o --no-g --chmod=ugo=rwX --delete --mkpath ./extract/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/apple-fonts/ && rm -rf ./extract && sudo restorecon -RFv /usr/share/fonts/apple-fonts && sudo fc-cache -v"

As long as you use &&, aliases can guarantee correctness too. It's pretty funny. 😄

bsherman•2y ago

that's an impressive alias

ArcitecOP•2y ago

😂 👍 I was so against installing software in /bin just for stuff like this. But I'm preparing a full move to uBlue so I needed some new strategies. Next step is probably to make the tool build an RPM that rpm-ostree can install to add the fonts globally, but I haven't used mock enough to know how to do that off-hand. So for now, I'm shelving that idea.

bsherman•2y ago

i think Jorge mentioned, but the biggest concern about using 3rd party, non-free fonts, etc in your image is you could end up getting a takedown request

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Yeah exactly. I really want to make a layered RPM.

bsherman•2y ago

so having a tool to set it up automatically is smart... if flatpak is able to use arbitrary font paths, you could probably do something like use a first-time boot script (like yafti) and run font-nexus to install to /var/lib/fonts or something like that... but you'd need to make sure that path was configured globally int /etc/fonts/fonts.d that's pretty easy... the trick might be if selinux limits something or, maybe /usr/local/share/fonts

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Flatpak has a few hardcoded font paths, all the standardized ones. So /usr and ~/ locations are the available ones Their source is not flexible on this

bsherman•2y ago

so ONLY /usr/share/fonts/* and ~/.local/fonts ? kinda lame that /usr/local/share/fonts/* wouldn't work

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Both paths under /usr work 🙂 support for /usr/local was added in 2022

bsherman•2y ago

good, i thought i saw you say that earlier

ArcitecOP•2y ago

And ~/.fonts and ~/.local/share/fonts Yeah it used to be broken

bsherman•2y ago

so, you can do that 🙂 just needs sudo

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Isn't /usr entirely immutable after installation?

bsherman•2y ago

it's "sorta" standard /usr/local is mutable

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Oh that's awesome 🙂 Then this means I don't need to bundle fonts in the disk image.

bsherman•2y ago

personally, i'm trying to stay away from using /usr/local, but this is exactly the kind of situation where I'm willing

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Yep. Of course the ultimate thing may be to figure out how to make an .rpm file that can layer itself to /usr/share/fonts. To avoid the mess in /usr/local

bsherman•2y ago

ah, you could do that i guess ... but if you are pretty strict in your use of /usr/local just for fonts... i think the layered RPM may actually be worse i only locally layer RPMs for testing, then remove them ASAP when I am done or add them to image

ArcitecOP•2y ago

Hmm, yeah I guess it's fine to just let it install statically in /usr/local/share/fonts without RPM, to avoid the layering performance issue. It's the correct path for anything installed via make install anyway, so it's not like it's an unusual installation method 🙂 Moving to #💾ublue-dev

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