How do i add fonts

[nrootconauto]

Before you ask,“yes”, i read this (https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/fonts.html).

But when i try to make a directory in ~/config,it says it is a read only file system

How can i add fonts,and how would i put them in a .hpkg. Im reading https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/docs/develop/packages/BuildingPackages.rst ,but it doesn’t really talk about how to put new items into the systems folders.

How do i get the fonts into ~/config/data/fonts/data/fonts so i can test them before packaging them into a .hpkg

I will be super thankful to anyone who can help me with this,as i intend to use haiku as my main os

[nrootconauto]

I FIGURED (part of ) IT OUT,put the fonts inti ~/config/non-pakcaged/data/fonts

Now,does anyone know how to put the fonts into a hpkg…I think i know how,but a little advice will help !!!

[un_spacyar]

Hello! There is an bash example to create an hpkg containing fonts:

Script to conveniently package fonts

Hi there! Normally, putting fonts into either /system/non-packaged/data/fonts/ or ~/config/non-packaged/data/fonts/ is easy enough a procedure to make new fonts available. Sadly, Haiku’s main graphics package “WonderBrush” doesn’t care about the “non-packaged” hierarchy that was introduced with package management. The solution is to create a package of your fonts, which will appear in the usual /system/data/fonts/ hierarchy that WonderBrush expects. To make this more convenient (esp. if you ad…

Another one is using a little app mentioned in this post:

Font installer Tracker Addon

Font Installer Tracker addon [image] Updated 22 Jun 2017 Did you ever have the need to quickly install, on Haiku, fonts which you download from internet or grabbed from another disk, but you don’t know where to put them? Well, on Haiku we have the “non-packaged” folders, but we also have the magnificient package manager and so the hpkg format :wink: So, if you want to install a font as hpkg (the recommended way), but you don’t know how to make an hpkg file (or if you find this process too …

Good luck!

[nrootconauto]

Thank you,now the bash recipe to pakage fonts shows mw how to make a pakcage

[extrowerk]

Or if you want to have a proper package just check the HaikuPorts wiki at github.

[lelldorin]

How do i get the fonts into ~/config/data/fonts/data/fonts so i can test them before packaging them into a .hpkg

Why you want to place fonts on a not standard folder? System folders are write protected, if you want to install something by hand, you need to place them in the home folder boot/home/config/…

[extrowerk]

There are logical problems in your answer.
It is actually a standard font folder, except he had mistakenly duplicated the “/data/fonts” part.

And while it is a standard forlder, it is managed by the package_daemon, thus it is read-only.

One can put fonts manually either in ~/config/non-packaged/data/fonts OR in /system/non-packaged/data/fonts.

Or : it is really easy to generate a recipe for a package.

[humdinger]

Before you ask,“yes”, i read this (https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/fonts.html).

That is a page that’s deprecated together with the Fonts preferences. Font settings were moved to the Appearance prefs. Not sure why that outdated page is still on the server. It’s not linked from anywhere inside the user guide (I hope…).
How did you find it?

[lelldorin]

There are logical problems in your answer.

It is actually a standard font folder, except he had mistakenly duplicated the “/data/fonts” part.

You are right, i was in the false directory:

/boot/home/config/non-packaged/data/fonts