Yes, I've got hundreds of ttfs to add, and I want to add them system-wide. Trouble is, I'm prompted to reenter my root password for each and every one when I use System Settings / Font Installer. I've just installed Kubuntu 10.04. Is there a way to "batch" them in?
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Re: Wants admin password for every single new system font addition
I've always just put them into the /usr/share/fonts/truetype (well, since they've always been TrueType fonts) or ~/.fonts folders myself. I didn't even known there was a font installer program, haha! Apparently it's been around since at least the KDE 3.x days though, judging by the pictures at this link.
So yeah. I'd just say to be extra certain you're doing things right find out where those fonts that you've been installing by hand are going (since all this is being indexed by the system that should take about half a second to complete, just go "locate font-that-i-installed.ttf" and see where that is) and then copy the remaining ones there (either in a kdesudo'd dolphin/konqueror window, or just with "sudo cp *.ttf /path/for/fonts/"). I bet it'd also work to create a subdirectory there specifically for your new fonts, so maybe just something like
or something to that effect.Code:sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts
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