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Fonts Location

I have always stored my fonts inside the `~/.fonts' directory.

I have decided to move all of them to `/usr/local/share/fonts/' after reading `/usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf' file.

This is what I have found inside:

<!-- Font directory list -->

        <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>

        <dir prefix="xdg">fonts</dir>
        <!-- the following element will be removed in the future -->
        <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

Based on the comment "the following element will be removed in the future" I think it's safe to assume that `~/.fonts' might stop working at some point.

Remember to run `fc-cache(1)' to scan the font directories and build cache files. I usually run it with `-f' flag to force re-generation.