[NTG-context] fonts on ubuntu in ~/.fonts directory are not recognised

Hi, the command 'mtxrun --script fonts --reload' does not find fonts in /home/me/.fonts directory on ubuntu, or any system fonts for that matter. Consequently the fonts installed there are not used. The output is like below. Best, Salil MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix otf MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix OTF MTXrun | fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.009 seconds MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix ttf MTXrun | fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix TTF MTXrun | fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.000 seconds