Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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Using fonts with older apps (ctwm, ical), and finding more fonts to use
I am using various old/legacy tools, such as ctwm and ical, which appear to prefer the fonts -- specifically, the font names -- returned by xlsfonts, instead of fc-list. That is, if I specify a font ...
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How can I install my own fonts from several subfolders?
(System: Xubuntu 12.10 with XFCE)
Hello,
I have a folder named Fonts on my windows partition which is mounted automatically on boot (why, I don't know, but I like it!). The fonts are sorted in ...
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Restore fonts in 12.10
Before 12.10 I was used to restore fonts just by deleting the ~/fonts.conf file and ~/fontconfig folder.
I cannot locate those two files anymore in 12.10 and deleting ~/.cache/fontconfig/ doesn't ...
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To use the license of Ubuntu Font face, what specifically i have to cite in my website?
I want to use the fonts available in http://font.ubuntu.com/ in my personal website, but I dont know what text I have to include in "Legal Information & Notices" section of my website. I have ...
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Can Evolution always use the same font/colour when starting a new email?
When I start to write a new email, using Evolution, I must manually change the font I want to use and its colour. Is there a way to set the default text format ?
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reset fonts ubuntu 12.10
I installed mscorefont on my ubuntu 12.10 to change the facebook font on google chrome
It's too fuzzy and I don't like it
how can I reset my fonts to the default
or if there's any way to adjust my ...
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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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Fonts in Gedit overlapping with tab toolbar
The problem is that the first line of Gedit is overlapping with the tab toolbar.
It is happening with every font that I use even the default one.
Is it something to do with my theme (Mac OS X)?
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Why can't I install fonts system-wide?
I am having trouble installing some .ttfs that I earlier added to a Win7 system and now am trying to add to a 64-bit 12.04 LTS system. I initially installed the fonts to my /home/.fonts folder and ...
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How to improve evince font smoothing
I'm wondering if it is possible to change evince font rendering and make it render fonts like adobe acrobat reader.
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How do I apply a custom font system-wide for all users?
I have installed the 'Droid' font.
The left one root nautilus, the right one normal nautilus. Why are the fonts different? (specifically look at menus)
I want both windows to use the same font.
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Does Ubuntu provide extra fonts through a font package?
Is there a font-package the Ubuntu ships out that has more fonts?
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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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Facebook font problem
I installed Wine HQ for Ubuntu. And then Ubuntu installed some Windows fonts like arial and e.t.c. After restarting computer I saw that Facebook font changed. How can I resolve it?
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License agreement won't go from terminal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I accept Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?
After I install software via apt-get from the terminal I get the following:
TrueType core fonts ...
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Install TTF fonts in Xorg
I need to install some truetype fonts on my system, in order to make them available to some old style app (tgif).
I created a new dir in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/mynewfont, copied my TTF files ...
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Font issue with PDF viewer
after having installed the msfont package for use Arial and Times New Roman I started having all sort of problems with fonts in Ubuntu.
Now if I open a pdf file the document viewer shows no text and ...
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Font messed up after kubuntu-desktop installed [duplicate]
I wanted to try kde, so I installed kubuntu-desktop, I didn't like it so I removed.
That messed up my font configuration in Ubuntu. Firefox and menu bar are ok, however, the rest (Eclipse, ...
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Font rendering in gedit is smooth, but not smooth in NetBeans
See the attached image. The window in the background is gedit with the fonts rendered smooth. The window on top is NetBeans with not-so-smooth font rendering (not anti-aliased, I think). Both ...
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PyCharm cannot find Monaco font
I have installed Monaco font[1] and although all applications see it and use it (e.g. vim), PyCharm IDE does not "see" it. PyCharm displays all other fonts, normally (monospace and non monospace), ...
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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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How to install a .ttf font in Xubuntu 11.10 32-bit
I installed the OCR-A font in Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit using the Font Viewer. As usual, I just double-clicked the file and then Install, without problems. But, when I tried to do the same in another PC ...
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How to deal with configuration style warnings occuring from TexLive 2012 installation?
I followed the advice of izx on how to install TexLive 2012 using the texlive-backports PPA. Before I started I removed all TexLive-related packages. The installation finished and everything seems to ...
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Mplayer subtitle change color in config file
How change mplayer subtitle from white to yellow? Also how change subtitle font to Ubuntu-font-family ?
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Install many fonts at once
I have about a hundred fonts that I need to install. Manually right clicking every font file and clicking install, then selecting "personal" vs "system" in a dialog that appears, and then closing it ...
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Lubuntu font too small to read
My Lubuntu font size suddenly turned extremely tiny (upper case characters are 4 pixels high) for some reason. The only possible change I can think of is I turned on desktop sharing (vino) in the ...
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How to create personalized font in Ubuntu?
Is there any other way to create a very own personalized font or character in ubuntu?
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Problem with Microsoft fonts and facebook
After I install Microsoft fonts, facebook font for the Persian content changes to Arial, which is a very bad font for Persian. This happens in both Chrome and Firefox. Here's the font family used by ...
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How do I fix Google Earth 6.2.2 theme and fonts in 12.04?
Here is the problem.
I would like to know how to get Google Earth using better fonts with anti-aliasing for English and Japanese. Don't know what these fonts are but they are hideous and completely ...
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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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How do I change the formatting of Xubuntu desktop icon text?
Xubuntu 12.10, icon text is in bold. I want it regular and not bold. Where can I change this? I can't see desktop font options in any settings.
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Facebook fonts look weird on 12.04
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on this machine and noticed the fonts on facebook.com look very different from how they used to look on 10.04 or Windows. They seem to be smaller and "washed out" (hard ...
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What is the correct Fontconfig syntax for substituting a given uninstalled font with an installed font?
The Fontconfig documentation is fairly opaque. I want applications looking up the 'Helvetica' family to instead receive the 'Helvetica LT Std' family and display that font, browsers in particular. The ...
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Dashboard doesn't see Font Viewer
why ubuntu 12.04 dashboard doesn't show "Font Viewer" ?
gnome-font-viewer.desktop file is present in /usr/share/applications with entry
NoDisplay=true
running gnome-font-viewer in console ...
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Improve GUI appearance of Wine applications
In many cases Windows programs run ok in Wine, but there is still the annoying problem of their appearance.
How to make things look better in Wine, especially fonts?
P.S. feel free to edit this ...
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How to change the font on the LightDM login screen
I want to change the font of the unity greeter screen usernames etc...
I saw this link but it says no such file exists!
so how can i get it done?
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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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Strange font rendering when using Tahoma
When using tahoma (antialias off), I get something like this:
Any idea?
(see bookmarks, computer and networks 'bold' in left panel)
Thanks for advice
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Showing the correct font in Japanese
I'm having a problem with Japanese characters using old/Chinese forms (神社 being the obvious examples), just as in this question:
Some applications use "archaic" character instead of modern ...
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How can I remove fonts that I never use, from libreoffice and linux in general?
There are a lot of extra fonts that all seem to look alike and just annoy me in the drop down list. Is there anyway I can erase them from the system?
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how to change browser search text font color?
I am using ubuntu 11.10.
The Google Search bar font color of my firefox browser is almost white with a white background. This occured after i installed Eye Of Gnome Theme.
How to change the font ...
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The fonts are showing very high
I've installed various fonts in my system, the problem is when I set that fonts for the system they're showing too high (see images).
Correct: Font Ubuntu 11 http://postimage.org/image/avvr5i8xd/
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Specific font seems broken in some apps
I'm having an odd issue with my fonts... I just did a clean 12.10 install with my /home preserved. And as you can see below, my font became well... odd. Looks like one of Ubuntu's default fonts has ...
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Ugly fonts with nVidia drivers [duplicate]
Just installed nVidia binary drivers today and the fonts are ugly. I've been using the opensource nouveau drivers all this while and the font's were much better. Even the expo effect in compiz was ...
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How do I set Ubuntu Bold Font as the window titlebar font?
I've made a fresh Ubuntu 12.10 install and the Ubuntu Bold font is missing from the font selection screens.
This means that if I try to use Ubuntu Tweak to set the title font for windows as "Ubuntu ...
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Fluxbox: blurry TTF fonts
I'm using fluxbox. I've noticed that the TTF fonts are quite blurry (particularly in GVim):
Here's an example, using Inconsolata 12pt in Fluxbox:
Here's the same example, using Inconsolata 12pt, ...
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Installing Times New Roman font
How can I install the Times New Roman font? This video illustrates what I want to do, but I do not have the same options - I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.
I have also tried running the following from the ...
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Can I override fonts installed by ttf-mscorefonts-installer, prefer Liberation fonts?
I had to apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10. The short version is I need to pipe PDF files out of an application that requires these fonts for certain glyphs.
The ...
