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This is driving me crazy. I'm using monochrome rendering for fonts and this causes a few problems in my browser so I wanted to make Ubuntu the standard sans-serif font. I changed it in the preferences and it initially works okay but after a while it reverts to the default. If I go into the font section in the menu, it still lists Ubuntu and if I click OK the pages will correct themselves. Does anyone know I can stop this behaviour?

I'm using Opera 11 on Ubuntu 10.10

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    You should file a bug report at bugs.opera.com/wizard . Dec 27, 2010 at 11:16
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    Thanks for the link, I've done as suggested. I also asked on the Opera forums, but wanted to ask Ubuntu as well since the community support is so good.
    – Roddie
    Dec 27, 2010 at 11:30
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    Did you change the font in the section "Preference -> Web pages" or in the section "Preferences -> Advanced -> Font". To get the font work correctly I had to chage everything subsection of the latter one. Also did you try to use dragonfly (rigth click then "inspect element") on a webpage that doesn't display correctly to see where opera look for the font (i.e. in user css, or the webpage css). Finally, are you in author mode or in user mode (in page-> style), the behaviour change totally depending on which mode you use.
    – Noz
    Dec 27, 2010 at 16:56
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    Have you tried this? : In page -> style -> edit modes, check the box "my font and colour" and maybe uncheck the box "font and colour of the page" in the user mode column. This will probably override any font entries on the webpage you visit however. (The path to the thing maybe wrong because I'm translating from my french version of Opera).
    – Noz
    Dec 27, 2010 at 18:55
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    Sorry, just realised the default is author mode, so that's what I've been using. I've played about with the settings for author and user modes but, as you mentioned, I don't want to override fonts on all websites.
    – Roddie
    Dec 27, 2010 at 22:19

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This is not an Ubuntu issue but rather an Opera bug and apparently it's been present since version 10.60 of the browser. It has been raised as such with the Opera team (the ID is DSK-324216) but as there has been no movement in nearly a year since reporting it, I'm not too hopeful of it ever being fixed.

I discovered a workaround which involves creating a .css file in ~/.opera/styles/user and populating it with:

pre, code {
    font-family: "Ubuntu", sans-serif;
}

You can then select this file in Preferences > Advanced > Content > Style Options... > My style sheet.

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Well, it seems than even in v12.00 Next, this bug is not fixed in Opera. The only thing we can do is: wait...

For this reasons, I love Launchpad.net and open source development. It’s always nice to follow progress of your bugs.

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