Saturday, January 18, 2025

Firefox Download Failed

Using MX Linux (Debian) all of a sudden I can't download anything in Firefox.  The download fails right away.  If I go to menu > more tools > browser console I can see this error

NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED

Believe it or not the fix was just to reboot.  After that it works fine now.

Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Bash script to show demo of all fonts on Linux

 I found this script somewhere, it makes a nice HTML file showing a demo of all your fonts.  I made some small tweaks to the script so it works better.  Here is a screen shot and the code below.  Save it as fonts.sh then chmod +x the file and run it.  Will output fonts.html that looks like this




#!/usr/bin/env bash

cat > fonts.html << __HEADER
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>Sample of local fonts matching '$1'</title>
</head>
<body>
__HEADER

fc-list --format='%{family}\n' $1 | cut -d ',' -f 1 | sort -u | while IFS='' read -r fontfamily
do
    cat >> fonts.html << __BODY
    <hr/>
    <div style="font-family: '${fontfamily}', 'serif'">
        <h1>${fontfamily}</h1>
        <p>
            1lLiI -0O- == {} [] The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog<br/>
            0123456789,.:;?/<>'"[]{}|\-=\`~!@#$%^&*()-=\\
        </p>
    </div>
__BODY

done

cat >> fonts.html << __FOOTER
    <hr/>
</body>
</html>
__FOOTER

echo "fonts.html created"
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