[Feature Request] Set specific folder to preview all the fonts

Hello,

Your fontpreview shows only the systems fonts, then I want the fontpreview to show other non-system font fonts to preview the fonts, for example:

fontpreview '/home/your_username/GitLab/fontes/Fontes de Apple e Microsoft/'

Try my fork.

However, it will only display the ttf/otf files in that directory, not recursively. You can modify line 134 to meet you needs.

Try my fork.

However, it will only display the ttf/otf files in that directory, not recursively. You can modify line 134 to meet you needs.

@aeghn, it broke

/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 11: /usr/bin/awk: Lista de argumentos muito longa
/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 11: /usr/bin/sort: Lista de argumentos muito longa
/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 69: /usr/bin/mkdir: Lista de argumentos muito longa
/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 71: /home/gusbemacbe/.cache/ftpr/text_preview: Ficheiro ou pasta inexistente
/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 73: /home/gusbemacbe/.cache/ftpr/text_preview_history: Ficheiro ou pasta inexistente
/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 100: /usr/bin/fzf: Lista de argumentos muito longa
/usr/bin/fontpreview: linha 88: /usr/bin/rm: Lista de argumentos muito longa

I don’t know why this happened, please describe in detail in English.

I don’t know why this happened, please describe in detail in English.

I changed my system's language to English, now the results are in English:

/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 11: /usr/bin/awk: List of arguments too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 11: /usr/bin/sort: List of arguments too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 69: /usr/bin/mkdir: List of arguments too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 71: /home/gusbemacbe/.cache/ftpr/text_preview: No file or folder
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 73: /home/gusbemacbe/.cache/ftpr/text_preview_history: No file or folder
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 100: /usr/bin/fzf: List of arguments too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 88: /usr/bin/rm: List of arguments too long

I translated them into English by using Google Translate.

But I need more details, try to use this script by adding set -x and provide your system details.

set -x

Hello @aeghn !

Sorry for my asbence, I went to bed.

Here are the details:

COLORTERM truecolor
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DESKTOP_SESSION /usr/share/xsessions/i3-with-shmlog
DISPLAY :0
ENHANCD_COMMAND cd
ENHANCD_COMPLETION_BEHAVIOUR default
ENHANCD_COMPLETION_DEFAULT 1
ENHANCD_COMPLETION_KEYBIND '^I'
ENHANCD_DIR /home/gusbemacbe/.enhancd
ENHANCD_DISABLE_DOT 0
ENHANCD_DISABLE_HOME 0
ENHANCD_DISABLE_HYPHEN 0
ENHANCD_DOT_ARG ..
ENHANCD_FILTER fzy:fzf-tmux:fzf:peco:percol:gof:pick:icepick:sentaku:selecta
ENHANCD_HOME_ARG
ENHANCD_HYPHEN_ARG -
ENHANCD_HYPHEN_NUM 10
ENHANCD_ROOT /home/gusbemacbe/.config/fisher/github.com/b4b4r07/enhancd
ENHANCD_USE_FUZZY_MATCH 1
GTK_IM_MODULE fcitx
GTK_MODULES canberra-gtk-module:appmenu-gtk-module
HG /usr/bin/hg
HOME /home/gusbemacbe
I3SOCK /run/user/1000/i3/ipc-socket.1513
LANG pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_NAME pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_PAPER pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_TIME pt_PT.UTF-8
LOGNAME gusbemacbe
MAIL /var/spool/mail/gusbemacbe
MKLROOT /opt/intel/mkl
NVM_BIN /home/gusbemacbe/.nvm/versions/node/v14.3.0/bin
NVM_CD_FLAGS
NVM_DIR /home/gusbemacbe/.nvm
NVM_INC /home/gusbemacbe/.nvm/versions/node/v14.3.0/include/node
OMF_CONFIG /home/gusbemacbe/.config/omf
OMF_PATH /home/gusbemacbe/.local/share/omf
PATH /home/gusbemacbe/.nvm/versions/node/v14.3.0/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin /usr/bin/site_perl /usr/bin/vendor_perl /usr/bin/core_perl
PWD /home/gusbemacbe/GitHub/fontpreview
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR 0
QT_IM_MODULE fcitx
QT_QPA_PLATFORM xcb
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME qt5ct
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE kvantum
SDIRS /home/gusbemacbe/.sdirs
SHELL /usr/bin/fish
SHLVL 3
TERM xterm-256color
TILIX_ID c9a45cbc-15ed-4067-9402-88817be7f197
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY 1
USER gusbemacbe
VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT 1
VTE_VERSION 6003
XAUTHORITY /home/gusbemacbe/.Xauthority
XDG_CACHE_HOME /home/gusbemacbe/.cache
XDG_CONFIG_HOME /home/gusbemacbe/.config
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XDG_DATA_DIRS /home/gusbemacbe/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
XDG_DATA_HOME /home/gusbemacbe/.local/share
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /run/user/1000
XDG_SEAT seat0
XDG_SEAT_PATH /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS user
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
XDG_SESSION_ID 3
XDG_SESSION_PATH /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11
XDG_USER_LOCAL /home/gusbemacbe/.local
XDG_VTNR 1
XINITRC /home/gusbemacbe/.xinitrc
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT jp
XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL jp106
XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS grp:rctrl_toggle
XMODIFIERS @im=fcitx
_ENHANCD_FAILURE 60
_ENHANCD_SUCCESS 0
_ENHANCD_VERSION 2.2.4
color_scheme_path /usr/share/qt5ct/colors/i3wm-sgs.conf

Sorry for the late reply.

Thanks for the information, but they are not so useful.

Anyway, try this first:

ulimit -s 8192
/usr/bin/fontpreview

@aeghn

It is the same error

~/G/fontpreview    ulimit -s 8192                                                                                                   (7s 332ms)  
!  ~/G/fontpreview    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 /usr/bin/fontpreview                                                                                 1 ┃
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 11: /usr/bin/sort: Argument list too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 11: /usr/bin/awk: Argument list too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 69: /usr/bin/mkdir: Argument list too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 71: /home/gusbemacbe/.cache/ftpr/text_preview: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 73: /home/gusbemacbe/.cache/ftpr/text_preview_history: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 100: /usr/bin/fzf: Argument list too long
/usr/bin/fontpreview: line 88: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Try to increase the number in ulimit -s 8192

PS: I wonder how many fonts installed in your system?

Try to increase the number in ulimit -s 8192

I did, and the same error.

PS: I wonder how many fonts installed in your system?

831 fonts