How best to remove unwanted Noto fonts from MX-Linux 21

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[BATcher]

MX-Linux 21 includes a pleasing variety of fonts, including (less pleasingly) every single Noto font known to Google in a significant number of languages and character sets.  Only a few of these Noto fonts are in a “Western” character set (examples being Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Noto Sans Mono, and so on).  Having so many ‘foreign language’ Noto fonts causes unnecessary clutter (for example, when selecting a font in Writer), and it would be good to be able to identify the ‘font packages’ which need to be removed to leave only the few ‘Western character set” fonts.

I cannot find a list of the Noto font packages and the fonts which each package contains.  Does anyone know of such a list?  Conversely, is there any way to determine from a specific Noto font file the package from which it originated?

Thanks very much!

Later…

This Debian packages webpage is unfortunately not organised in quite the way I need…

BATcher

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• This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by BATcher.
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Try FontBase font manager.

https://fontba.se/downloads/linux

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FWIW; have noticed over the years that some distro developers are embedding fonts within linux-modules, which is why you may not be able to see them in synaptic under the installed fonts section.
My advice, don’t go there..forgetaboutit and move on.

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The problem is that there are 129 Noto fonts comprising all languages of the world (for that is Google’s intention) according to Wikipedia’s somewhat inconsistent list [see below], of which I only want the five (or possibly six, if you count Mono as separate) Noto Latin fonts:
Sans, Sans Display, Sans Mono, Serif, Serif Display
The remaining fonts are, quite literally, a waste of space and effort for me!

LIST of NOTO FONTS

Noto Color Emoji
Noto Emoji
Noto Kufi Arabic
Noto Mono
Noto Naskh Arabic
Noto Nastaliq Urdu
Noto Sans
Noto Sans Adlam
Noto Sans Adlam Unjoined
Noto Sans Anatolian Hieroglyphs
Noto Sans Armenian
Noto Sans Avestan
Noto Sans Balinese
Noto Sans Bamum
Noto Sans Batak
Noto Sans Bengali
Noto Sans Brahmi
Noto Sans Buginese
Noto Sans Buhid
Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal
Noto Sans Carian
Noto Sans Chakma
Noto Sans Cham
Noto Sans Cherokee
Noto Sans CJK JP
Noto Sans CJK KR
Noto Sans CJK SC
Noto Sans CJK TC
Noto Sans Coptic
Noto Sans Cuneiform
Noto Sans Cypriot
Noto Sans Deseret
Noto Sans Devanagari
Noto Sans Display
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Noto Sans Ethiopic
Noto Sans Georgian
Noto Sans Glagolitic
Noto Sans Gothic
Noto Sans Gujarati
Noto Sans Gurmukhi
Noto Sans Hanunoo
Noto Sans Hebrew
Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic
Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi
Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian
Noto Sans Javanese
Noto Sans Kaithi
Noto Sans Kannada
Noto Sans Kayah Li
Noto Sans Kharoshthi
Noto Sans Khmer
Noto Sans Lao
Noto Sans Lepcha
Noto Sans Limbu
Noto Sans Linear B
Noto Sans Lisu
Noto Sans Lycian
Noto Sans Lydian
Noto Sans Malayalam
Noto Sans Mandaic
Noto Sans Meetei Mayek
Noto Sans Mongolian
Noto Sans Mono
Noto Sans Mono CJK JP
Noto Sans Mono CJK KR
Noto Sans Mono CJK SC
Noto Sans Mono CJK TC
Noto Sans Myanmar
Noto Sans Nabataean
Noto Sans New Tai Lue
Noto Sans NKo
Noto Sans Ogham
Noto Sans Ol Chiki
Noto Sans Old Italic
Noto Sans Old North Arabian
Noto Sans Old Persian
Noto Sans Old South Arabian
Noto Sans Old Turkic
Noto Sans Oriya
Noto Sans Osage
Noto Sans Osmanya
Noto Sans Phags Pa
Noto Sans Phoenician
Noto Sans Rejang
Noto Sans Runic
Noto Sans Samaritan
Noto Sans Saurashtra
Noto Sans Shavian
Noto Sans Sinhala
Noto Sans Sundanese
Noto Sans Syloti Nagri
Noto Sans Symbols
Noto Sans Syriac Eastern
Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela
Noto Sans Syriac Western
Noto Sans Tagalog
Noto Sans Tagbanwa
Noto Sans Tai Le
Noto Sans Tai Tham
Noto Sans Tai Viet
Noto Sans Tamil
Noto Sans Telugu
Noto Sans Thaana
Noto Sans Thai
Noto Sans Tibetan
Noto Sans Tifinagh
Noto Sans Ugaritic
Noto Sans Vai
Noto Sans Yi
Noto Serif
Noto Serif Ahom
Noto Serif Armenian
Noto Serif Bengali
Noto Serif CJK JP
Noto Serif CJK KR
Noto Serif CJK SC
Noto Serif CJK TC
Noto Serif Devanagari
Noto Serif Display
Noto Serif Georgian
Noto Serif Gujarati
Noto Serif Kannada
Noto Serif Khmer
Noto Serif Lao
Noto Serif Malayalam
Noto Serif Tamil
Noto Serif Telugu
Noto Serif Thai

BATcher

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Warning: Make a backup image before you make any changes!!!!

Go to Settings / System Setting / Appearance / Fonts / Font Mgmt
Scroll down the list of fonts, select the first of the Noto fonts you want to delete, scroll down until you see the last one, hold the shift key while you click on the last one on the list. Scroll back through the now-highlighted listing, hold the ctrl key while you click to deselect the individual ones on the list that you want to keep.

I would suggest looking over the list once more before hitting the delete key. You will get a chance to look over the list yet another time and I would suggest you do so before you confirm the delete.

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