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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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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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Cambria appears only in italics in LibreOffice
I have a Windows 7 partition mounted in Ubuntu. In order to access the fonts I created a link to the Windows font folder using
ln -s /path/to/your/windows/fonts/folder .fonts/windows
I then ...
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problem running tgif in ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
I have installed tgif via synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. When I tried to run tgif from the terminal I got the following error message:
"Fatal Error in OpenFont(): Cannot open the ...
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Some files could not been downloaded
I am getting an error every time I boot up Kubuntu,it says(translated):
The following packages tried to download aditional data after installation,but the data could not been downloaded or ...
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Google Chrome not rendering Kannada correctly?
I am facing a problem in viewing web pages with kannada. I tried re-installing Chrome but still have the problem.
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Block certain fonts from certain programs?
I often vary my fonts when creating documents, and find it difficult to find the ones I often use in the drop-down menus due to the large amounts of foreign scripts, etc, that are automatically in ...
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How can I install fonts in wine?
I am using ubuntu 12.04 and I just installed wine.
The installation was not fully successful because it gave me the error that fonts were not installed.
Without the fonts I cant open any program.I ...
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Install chinese font for ubuntu server
I have a vps with ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed and I was wondering how do you install chinese font so I can display sites that contain chinese characters?
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eclipse default font in ubuntu 12.04
I'm using eclipse on my ubuntu 12.04 system. Currently the default font in eclipse is set to monospace (mostly) although my system monospace font defaults to ubuntu mono (checked from ...
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12.04 Browser fonts changed unexpectedly
running 12.04 and recently installed Font Manager and a handful of fonts that I use in Gimp.
After a recent reboot some fonts in both chromium and firefox are screwy. This is only true on my ubuntu ...
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How to install MS fonts on ubuntu 12.04
How to install MS fonts on ubuntu 12.04
I did sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer and it seems it is successfully.
But why I am not seeing new fonts? (e.g. when I got to select font in my ...
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oki microline 320 turbo, printing from command line (lpr -P ML320-1TURBO) produces unreadable font
I have to use the oki microline 320 turbo dot matrix printer for many customers. It installs perfectly via the USB cable and selects the foomatic/okiibm driver and foomatic-rip filter.
When ...
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myanmar font on firefox at ubuntu didn't work out
I am a new user of ubuntu 12.04 from MYANMAR. I tried to install myanmar font to read the myanmar website but it didn't work out. Please Someone can help me out?
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Why I can't install new fonts in LibreOffice?
I have installed a lot of fonts before, but this time things are really different. I have downloaded some True Type Font (ttf) fonts. Then paste them in the directory
usr/share/fonts
after that ...
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Grub Customizer doesn't change image background
I use the latest version of Grub Customizer (3.0.2) and Ubuntu 12.04. On "appearance settings" I changed the background image and the font, but once I reboot the system they don't appear on grub, ...
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Why xemacs looks like this?
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 xemacs looks like this
where as emacs looks like this
Xemacs also produces the following warnings:
Warning: Cannot convert string ...
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Font Assamese Inscript
I am need to use Assamese Inscript (unicode font) in ubuntu desktop for data entry process but I found only Bengali not Assamese.
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Xmonad changes font in terminal
When I fire up a GNOME-Terminal in 12.04 This is the sort of font I get:
I really like it and want to keep it. When I run Xmonad and fire up a GNOME-terminal I get this sort of font:
Why are ...
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Font becomes unreadable
After switching from another account to my account, the font in Firefox, Thunderbird, Acrobat, and pretty much all programs becomes unreadable. This only happens sometimes when I have left the ...
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How to reset fonts
is there any way to reset fonts? my recent customization made the desktop ugly, now the fonts are not smooth and some are very small.I used ubuntu tweak tool to reset fonts. but it didn't work as ...
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changing font in xterm without messing up utf-8
I'm trying to use Inconsolata font in xterm using:
xterm*faceName: Inconsolata
xterm*faceSize: 10
in .Xresources (and I don't forget to update with xrdb .Xresources) but when I changed the font, ...
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Why do fonts look bad in Google Chrome compared to other applications?
Fonts looks bad in Google Chrome, and I can not change them.
All other applications, such as LibreOffice look good.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, how can I fix them?
(NB: Awaiting a screenshot from the OP)
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font looks bad in Browsers (Firefox and Chrome)
font looks bad in Browsers (Firefox and Chrome)
All other applications as libreoffice look good.
I'm using ubuntu 12.04
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Fuzzy text in Unity title bar
Since upgrading to precise, the text in the Unity title bar is fuzzy. I thought this might be my general font settings, but Window titles, which seem to use the exact same font, don't have this ...
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Fonts look ugly in Kubuntu 12.04 after setting resolution to 1440x900
I'm currently using Kubuntu 12.04 and after installing nVidia drivers and Setting resolution up to 1440x900 limit, fonts look ugly,only browser content fonts work well, I tried fixing them using ...
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Blurry Chinese fonts in 12.04
LHS browser is in Ubuntu 11.10 which renders the chinese text perfectly.
RHS however, is in Ubuntu 12.04, which renders blurry chinese.
Can anyone tell me why Ubuntu cannot render Chinese text ...
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Where can I adjust the font size of Java programs to match the system fonts?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and started to install some Java based programs. None of them uses my system fonts. I have set my system fonts to 175% font size to make them readable for my eyes but all Java ...
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Sanskrit fonts and half letters
I have been able to access sanskrit fonts. How do I type half letters to get compound letters in Sanskrit?
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Ragged and thin font in all users except my account
there is no problem in my main user account, but in other is system font very ugly. Ragged and thin. I use default ubuntu - font - family. The same situation is in LightDM.
I tried delete .fontconfig ...
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How to fix corrupted desktop icons and fonts?
I love Linux, but am a real novice. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32bit alongside Windows XP.
The installation seems to work just fine except for the desktop. The icons & font becomes corrupted ...
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Thunderbird font size varies with encoding in Content-Type header
I can't get Thunderbird 13.0.1 to use proper font sizes for message text.
I have configured all font settings to use Ubuntu Mono 16, and set minimum font size to 16. Nevertheless, I get two different ...
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weird lines, font corrupted in unity 12.04 [closed]
04 font are corrupted
fonts they used to look like broken alphabets.
using intel graphics and default ubuntu fonts (English)
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How to replace the Ubuntu Font with other fonts for general text display? [duplicate]
How to replace the Ubuntu font with the Windows ClearType font, Mac OS X font or other fonts for general text display (given that you have the neccesary files)?
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How can I modify the small icon and title bar fonts in Unity?
As you can see in the screenshot, the fonts for the title bar (any window) and for the icons within the file browser (as well as in the navigation pane to the left) are very very small, I have tried ...
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Why does my browser display all-white (blank) text after installing some fonts?
I installed a bunch of extra fonts for Ubuntu and now almost nothing involving fonts is displayed in my browser.
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How to configure X11 to find a font as requested by a proprietary binary
Starting a proprietary binary I get the following error message:
FATAL ERROR from X-windows: font not found: -*-*helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
I'm not quite experienced in handling ...
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Basic font hinting not working in ubuntu 12.04
After i have installed gnome office (abiword and gnumeric ) in ubuntu 12.04 'Basic' font hinting does not work and looks weired. How can i rectified or reset default font rendering.
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Monospace font too thin and spindly in Chrome
Could be related to this but I couldn't solve the problem with the fixes there.
The issue is especially apparent on websites that use monospace font. For example: ...
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Font setting reset after restart in kubuntu 12.04
Hi I have a very annoying problem with kubuntu. Every time when I change the font, and after a restart or a root privilege is elevated the font is changed to default ubuntu 9. How to fix this annoying ...
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Monospace font is not mono spaced in eclipse, why?
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, and I see that when using eclipse for editing source code, the bold characters displayed with the Monospace font are actually thicker than the non-bold ones. Thus, ...
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install artwiz fonts in ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to install the artwiz fonts in ubuntu 12.04 and following this thread. But xfonts-artwiz2 package doesn't exist in 12.04. Also the thread is too old!
I am trying to install the osnap ...
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KDE fonts not rendering bold in Ubuntu 12.04
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with some KDE programs: kate and yakuake. Neither of these programs will render bold font. Instead, the font appears as "Regular". How can I fix this?
The image below shows an ...
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Backup/Migrate all fonts from 11.10 to 12.04 (all locations)
I don't know whether this is correct, but I seem to recall that there are multiple places to store fonts, especially with true type stuff, and multiple ways to install them (some I double click, some ...
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Fonts look bad in Microsoft Office using Wine
Office fonts in wine look very different from what they look in Windows or LibreOffice.
As can be seen from the attached screenshots, they look blurry in some sizes and aliased in other sizes. You ...
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What has changed in unicode font rendering since 11.04?
This is how a web page fragment shows on my old 11.04 system:
and this is how the same fragment showed on 11.10 and shows on my current 12.04 system:
Any idea what's wrong? Of course I have all ...
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How to configure Kubuntu fonts to look line ones used in Unity - Ubuntu 12.04?
Because Unity and Gnome3 where too buggy and unstable I switched to Kubuntu and now I do have a really good speed and, so far, stability.
Still, the problem with Kuduntu, is the all the fonts are ...
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Why is Chinese text displaying strangely?
I just upgraded to 12.04 and should have pretty default settings, yet Chinese text is displaying inconsistently. In the example below, for instance, 九 and 山 (two out of three characters) look as ...
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How do I change the chat font in Skype 2.2.0.35?
Is there a way to change the font used by Skype for chat?
