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I want to change the font style in terminal and for default gedit as well.So how to change the font type in Ubuntu 12.04?Any help and suggestions will be appreciable.

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Possible duplicate How do I change fonts and adjust their size? – coversnail May 4 '12 at 14:28
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Not a total duplicate. Although changing system fonts is covered in the link, changing fonts in terminal and gedit are not. – amc May 4 '12 at 15:06

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Install the gnome-tweak-tool Install gnome-tweak-tool:

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

tweak

In fonts you can change the system wide font.

For gedit:

gedit

For terminal: terminal

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Not sure about the editor but for the terminal just change the font for the default profile from the

Edit -> Profile menu

Cheers

S

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