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type="topic" style="task"
id="fonts-user">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="appearance" />
<revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-29" status="draft"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Matthias Clasen</name>
<email>matthias.clasen@gmail.com</email>
<years>2012</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Jana Svarova</name>
<email>jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2014</years>
</credit>
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<desc>Add extra fonts for individual users.</desc>
</info>
<title>Add an extra font for individual users</title>
<p>You can install an extra font which will be available to a specific user
on your system in applications that use <sys>fontconfig</sys> for
font handling.</p>
<steps>
<title>Install an extra font</title>
<item>
<p>Copy the font to the <file>~/.local/share/fonts/</file>
directory to install it.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>You may need to run the following command to update the font cache:</p>
<screen><output>$ </output><input>fc-cache ~/.local/share/fonts</input></screen>
</item>
</steps>
<p>You may need to restart running applications to see the changes. User
sessions do not need to be restarted.</p>
</page>