Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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Change color of Applet context menu font or background
As seen here http://i.imgur.com/9tySBEi.png, theres little contrast between the greys.
I'm using the FlatStudio theme with Faenza Dark icons. I'm assuming it's because the icons are for a dark theme, ...
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Use Roboto font in Gimp
I have installed Gimp on Ubuntu 12.04, now I wish to use the Roboto font is Gimp. I reached this blog on how to install Roboto font on Ubuntu 11.10.
But I am happy with the default font for all other ...
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I think a change happened in my fonts after installing a KDE application !
Once,I've uninstalled my ubuntu 13.04 because I think it hadn't the ubuntu nice fonts which u see in first ubuntu starting. Now, I noticed after installing Okular, a KDE application I see the same ...
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Fonts and spacing seems to have changed after installation of a package
To get the window builder in eclipse to work I had to install some dependencies. One of them seem to have changed the font everywhere, even in the terminals. It somehow looks like KDEss fontset.
This ...
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Import vector graphics to inkscape
I'm producing vector graphics in my research with Maethematica and/or MATLAB, and I want to combine a few of them. I thought the best would be to use inkscape to do that, but unfortunately inkscape ...
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Fonts corrupted
Fonts seems to be corrupted in Unity in my system after an update yesterday. It seems certain characters are refusing to display (please see attached screenshot), or gets displayed in same color as ...
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Can I create an alias for a font? [closed]
I have a XeTeX document which I compile on two different machines, one running OSX and the other Ubuntu.
On OSX I have the font Palatino installed, and on Ubuntu I have a similar one named TeX Gyre ...
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Package jamming up software center
I tried to install some fonts via software center. Specifically ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
It has been spinning - applying changes - for 25 minutes.
Is this OK?
If not - how do I kill it without ...
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Installed Winetricks and Facebook font got messed up
I installed Winetricks on Ubuntu 12.10 and as you know, it comes with some Windows fonts. I don't know what messed up the Facebook font.
It appears like a fixed-width font. I've checked the fonts ...
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How can I back to 12.10 fonts
The ratio of fonts isn't very good in 13.04. I mean when I open a webpage like Facebook which is(in my case) in both language of Persian & English, the font size is smaller for Persian than ...
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Font alias for remote X server connection
I am connecting to remote server to launch an X application (qmon).
After I type ssh myserver -X and launch the application, I get the following error:
Warning: Cannot convert string ...
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com 's fonts are too small, how do I report the problem?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com page is beautiful.
But it is too wide , this makes fonts too small.
If I enlarge page I must pull to right. It is so boring.
The font looks small especially in notebook.
This ...
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Embedded fonts not shown in Firefox 20 after upgrade to 13.04 from 12.10 [closed]
After upgrade ubuntu to 13.04 from Ubuntu 12.10 the websites with embedded fonts not shown in firefox but show fine in Chromium and Epiphany. look at the following pictures to understand me better:
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Qt5 font rendering in Ubuntu 13.04
My fonts in general within QtCreator inside Ubuntu 13.04 looks 'ugly' when compared to how they looked in 12.10.
12.10 still used Qt4, so did something regarding the font rendering in Qt5 and the ...
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Letter-spacing in gnome-terminal
After update to 13.04 have broken fonts in gnome terminal:
It is "Ubuntu Mono 13" font, but same spacing problems occurs with any monospace font.
What can I do?
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Which software is used in Ubuntu for supporting Gill sans font Just like MS Office in Windows
Which software is used in Ubuntu for supporting "Gill sans" font Just like "MS Office" in Windows.
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In Unity, all “O” are showing up as “V”
Since today, in Ubuntu 12.10 running Unity, my font has been doing something strange.
The O characters are showing up as V. See the graphics below. For example, the desktop folder on this file open ...
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How to change the font of various terminal emulators?
Mainly:
Gnome Terminal
Xfce Terminal
Konsole
LXTerminal
Terminator
Guake
Yakuake
Urxvt
Xterm
Mrxvt
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Switch between normal and 10-feet interface
Sometimes when I watch a movie or TV episode on my computer, I'd like to sit on my couch. Now sometimes you want to check some random fact being mentioned on wikipedia, or someone writes to me via ...
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How to change the Chromium font in Ubuntu 12.10?
The font in chromium 12.10 is really ugly (you can especially see it on facebook).
How can I get a ClearType like font?
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Powerline fonts aren't working
I have installed powerline and installed the Ubuntu Mono Powerline fonts and selected the font as the font to use in the terminal. The special characters still aren't working after installing the ...
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Some plain text mails have a different font
(Ubuntu 10.04 · Thunderbird 17.0.5)
I read all my mails as plain text (View → Message Body As → Plain text). Usually they all are in the same font with the same font size:
But once in a while I ...
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Change font color of inactive apps on KDE taskbar
How can I set minimized apps' names on taskbar (they call it taskmanager widget in kde I believe, that panel at the bottom) NOT to be gray? Ie where can I change its font, in system settings I can ...
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Install font for specific language
I'm using Ubuntu in English. I also use Arabic to name files and folders. How can I install a default font for specific Arabic and another for English ?
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Font installed yet? - Copperplate fonts? - bin file?? - logging out and in again? File Viewer? What? [closed]
I'm in 12.10 the Quantal Quetzal. Hello.
I think the problem is that I downloaded a font that is a .bin -
Copperplate Bold is the best font! I need it for my web site! and I can't find it in the ...
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Bold font in user interface of LibreOffice
I just had a new installation of LibreOffice from apt-get and it seems that all the fonts in the user interface (text in menus, text in dialogs etc...) appears to be bold.
It creates an ...
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Font corruption in Firefox
Characters are periodically not displayed correctly on some websites in Firefox. An example is http://askubuntu.com/questions/ask where the 'w' in the title "How to Format" gets displayed as an ...
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Fonts are missing on fresh boot
When I boot my ubuntu studio 12.10 i sometimes experience that fonts are missing. Clearing the font cache and executing fc-cache solves it but I have to do it all the time.
Also I get a warning about ...
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Romanian special characters look bad in LibreOffice (and other text editors)
There are certain Romanian characters (ș, î, ț, ă, â) which are handled differently in the different key layouts.
The standard layout makes them look odd, different from the other letters in ...
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How to get Ubuntu to display unicode supplementary characters?
I have a standard desktop UI install of the latest Ubuntu distro and I'm trying to view this page: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/supplementary-test.html
However none of the text display properly. I ...
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Font rendering - infinality patches
There is a PPA https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter= with patches Infinality оn freetype and cairo for 11.04 11.10 12.04 12.10 13.04
But the updates are done only ...
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How to improve GUI and font appearance of programs installed under CrossOver?
This can be done in Wine but can it be done in CrossOver?
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Why does Roboto Regular display as bold?
I downloaded the Roboto font from the Android website. All the weights—including Roboto Regular—display properly in the font viewer, but when I try to set it as my title bar font (with ...
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How can I make yEd look more integrated into Ubuntu?
yEd is a powerful graph editor that is coded in Java and supports a variety of platforms, including Ubuntu. However, by default it looks quite alien to the Ubuntu desktop as it doesn't appear to use a ...
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Consolas not visible in IntelliJ Idea on Ubuntu 12.04
Tried installing Consolas on Ubuntu 12.04 as suggested here but the font is not visible in the settings of IntelliJ Idea CE IDE.
[Edit 1]
I also copied the font to ...
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Restoring default fonts
I tried copying my fonts (mostly TTF files) backups (including fonts used in Windows, odf etc) to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and run sudo fc-cache -fv. But this corrupted my Gimp Installation. ...
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Terminal-specific font settings
Since sharp fonts are better for my eyes, I use the MS fonts with full hinting and no anti-aliasing, system wide. It works great for all applications, but the terminal. I've found no fixed-width font ...
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Rendering on Indian languages
I want to know how the rendering is done in Indian languages. What are the programming languages used and what are the libraries used for rendering in ubuntu12.04 and in editors such as gedit.
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Why does Firefox display an й instead of an é?
This has bugged me for a while, but on many pages viewed with Firefox on Ubuntu (but not on Windows or OSX) any é (e with an acute accent) is replaced by a й (the Cyrillic Short I). There are probably ...
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Display of hindi fonts in terminal (after translating manpages in hindi) [duplicate]
I have translated manpages in hindi and typed hindi characters by the Hindi(Bolnagri) keyboard in system settings. But, when the manpages are getting displayed on terminal, I am not able to see any ...
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Why my netbeans font looks so strange? [duplicate]
I'm using ubuntu 12.10, and I installed netbeans 7.3 php IDE, but the font of netbeans looks so strange, anyone know how to fix this problem?
Thanks!
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Hodgepodge Font Problem
I did something wrong and I don't what's that, but it has caused hodgepodge fonts. In some websites such as blogger dynamic views, the problem occurs. Please see the link.
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Fontconfig warning: “msfonts-rules.conf”, line 23:
How can I fix this message:
Fontconfig warning: "msfonts-rules.conf", line 23: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected
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Fix ugly bold fonts in Firefox 18+
I am using Firefox 19 at the moment. As of Firefox 18 or even earlier, I noticed that bold fonts on some pages look horrible and unreadable.
For example, go to this link.
In my Firefox 19, the ...
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Where are the lucidatypewriter fonts?
In older Ubuntu versions and older X11s in general, there used to be the fonts
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-* ...
I have installed xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-100dpi but still I cannot find any ...
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gnome-tweak-tool turned fonts into rectangles
I installed gnome-tweak-tool to replace the system fonts and add some fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype.
Now, all bold fonts look like rectangles. How can I fix it? Screenshot here:
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font is not displayed normally
I have a clean install of xubuntu, on top of which I've installed gnome-shell.
nov the font doesn't get rendered normally as you can see in the picture below
link to the full size image
any ideas ...
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Warning while running LibreOffice4.0
I installed LibreOffice4.0 according to this. While running I get following warning.
Fontconfig warning: "/opt/libreoffice4.0/share/fonts/truetype/fc_local.conf", line 13: Having multiple ...
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Can I make ReText use a different font type for displaying code?
I'm using ReText 3.1.4 (Lubuntu 12.10) to make notes for myself. I want to know if it's possible to use a different font for displaying text that is marked as code in preview mode:
In the image, ...
