Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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Are True Type fonts (TTF) standard on Ubuntu?
I know I can use .ttf (True Type Font) files on Windows. If I want to install them I just klick on the file and if its not on the system the font is getting installed.
Is this the same way on ubuntu? ...
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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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How to solve font distortion in Chromium?
I am using Chromium 18 on Ubuntu 12.04 (18.0.1025.168~r134367-0ubuntu0.12.04.1). When I open websites with it, sometimes the fonts get distorted like on the picture attached. I could not find a ...
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Can anyone help with this font problem?
(The above screenshot is of a drop-down menu, by the way.)
So, I've been having problems for the last while where some text (not all) is scrunched up like in the screenshot above. I've tried ...
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Eclipse sans font is not readable
Ubuntu 12.04, Oracle Java 7, Eclipse Indigo/Juno. Have following trouble (Same in code for final member names and static methods):
Font seems like sans, tried to change it to Bitstream Sans, no ...
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Why have I started losing letters in some fonts?
Within the last hour I've started losing letters. This happened after all my programs crashed except for pidgin. (needed to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)
If I go to google.com queries containing numbers, some ...
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How to adjust the font size in Ubuntu Software Center?
I like to use the Ubuntu Software Center, but I cannot adjust the font size of the entries. So most of the entries' fonts are so ridiculously small for me that, I can't read them!
I tried by ...
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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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Fonts look strange in firefox
I have just moved from Windows to Ubuntu 12.04 (with Firefox 11), and the fonts in some of my favorite sites (especially Hebrew sites) look strange.
I looked at the CSS and saw such fonts such as ...
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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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System-Wide Font Settings
How do I change the font/size for the icon captions, Dolphin text, and window decoration text? They all went from 12 point to 10 point after I installed KDE updates on Kubuntu 12.04.
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How do I change background Color of the desktop icon Font?
How to i change background Color of the desktop icon Font?
The Font is white and Font Background is darkgray. I want to set the background Color to transparent.
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Fonts look squashed or stretched in the browser on Ubuntu
Fonts in the browser on Ubuntu look look squashed/stretched compared to Windows/OSX.
This image shows exactly what I mean: http://i.stack.imgur.com/suUXX.png
I installed msttcorefonts and ...
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Text in Ubuntu Software Center is unreadable
When I do a search in the software center this is what the results look like.
I can only see the text if I select one of them.
I tried changing themes but that didn't fix it.
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How to change the font in LightDM
I want to change the font in LightDM (Ubuntu 12.04 default login screen) but the unity-greeter.conf file is in blank.
Thank you.
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GTK Fonts too large with openbox
I am having a problem with the default font sizes for GTK apps in openbox being too large. I do not quite understand how to fix the issue. They do not follow the settings set from within un or from ...
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dpkg stuck downloading font files
I have been reinstalling Ubuntu 12.04. The install from USB works fine, and I could update everything OK, but when I got to re-installing my application software I hit a snag.
One of the packages I ...
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Boot screen and console scrambled/bad fonts
i have nvidia sound card system works ok but while booting and in console (ctrl+alt+f1) i have bad fonts/scrambled text as this:
I have tried both nvidia-current and nvidia-current-updates ...
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No anti-aliasing with Xmonad
I'm looking into Xmonad. One problem I'm having is that most of my applications in Xmonad don't have anti-aliasing.
For example gnome-terminal & evolution. I have this in my .Xresources:
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Web fonts became ugly after installing KDE
After installing kde-standard on my Ubuntu 12.04,web fonts(both Firefox and Chrome) turned to ugly both in Gnome and KDE desktops.How do I get back good looking web fonts.
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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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How can I make the fonts in Thunderbird to look bigger?
When I'm using Thunderbird with a 1080p resolution, it looks so small until zoomed. Is there any way to make messages to look bigger permanently?, because since last Thunderbird update typographies ...
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Why does Chrome crash on websites using the Awesome font? [closed]
Since github using webfront for icons, every time I open github website that tab will crash. But other websites are not crash.
I did everything I can, like disable all extensions, clean all cache, ...
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Why is Helvetica hollow in both Chromium and Aurora? [closed]
Currently trying to teach myself Bootstrap, which calls the following fonts:
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
...and the fonts display fine, but they're hollow. ...
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How to change eclipse font sizes
I'm trying to reduce the font sizes used in Eclipse. I've read several notes talking about how to do this, but none of them have made a difference.
Obviously, changing it in Eclipse preferences ...
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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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How to force text to resize together with window? [closed]
I have some text in my app window. I'd like it to resize if someone resizes the app window (if window gets bigger, the text gets bigger too).
Is this possible to achieve using Quickly, Glade and ...
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How to change font size in Skype 4.x?
I tried using "qtconfig" but that didn't help. (Even changing the style in Skype, then using Qtconfig won't show any effect.)
Where could I make the fonts larger? (Ubuntu's accessibility settings ...
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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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How can I change font attributes for “Text Entry” in Glade
I'd like to change font attributes (size, style, family, colour) for Text Entry but I don't see any option for this in Glade. There's no problem with Label, but Label is not editable by user.
I tried ...
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Changing the menu bar font
So, I'm already using Ubuntu Tweak to change the font of my UI. There's options for everything there except for the bold title in the menu bar. It's still set to (what I assume is) Ubuntu bold, and ...
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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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Fonts in Google Earth look bad even after installing Microsoft Fonts
Google Earth fonts look bad, even after installing the Microsoft font package.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bit.
Is there a way to solve this problem?
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Make Ubuntu fonts sharper
In the last two months I'm trying to do a complete transition from Windows 7 to Ubuntu.
There is something that is really missing. I really like the sharp and think fonts in windows (I'm not talking ...
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In unity's dash, how do I change the font colour?
I seem to have white font over a white background when I press "super" or the dash button on the launcher. Can I change the font colour or make it darker in the dash?
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Skype 4.0 still looks like 2.2 beta
I've just installed skype 4.0 for my Ubuntu 12.4LTS and the font and setup of it still looks like the older ersion 2.2 beta. I've tryed reinstalling it, and rebooting my computer but it doesn't help. ...
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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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How to Install a new version of a font?
I have installed a font using Font Viewer, when a new version of the font showed up, I downloaded it, after hitting the "Install font", the button text changes to "Install failed". What to do?
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Fonts look worse after ATI proprietary driver install
I've installed the (almost) current version of the Catalyst 12.4 proprietary driver (8.960). I used the version that is in precise's restricted repository with the following command:
sudo apt-get ...
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How to find what particular fonts are used for the system GTK theme in XUbuntu?
Some non-native applications (say IntelliJ Idea) use ugly fonts instead of those the whole system does. I'd like to configure them manually but I don't know what particular font (there are so many...) ...
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Under Unity 2D my username and menu up top looks ugly [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity-2d Upper panel font distorted
The fonts are no longer anti-aliased, which is cool, but they look like they have oil spilling off them, green and purple dripping ...
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System-wide smoothing is off, but evince smooths anyway
I managed to turn of smoothing system-wide in ubuntu (see screenshot) including font in applications.
However, evince (and other pdf readers) does not respect smoothing turned off and smooths text ...
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Installed entire font family, but only one appears
I recently installed an entire family of fonts (Gill Sans for those interested) on my computer. When I open up OpenOffice to use them, however, I saw that in the drop-down font menu I only get to see ...
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Are there regular Gujarati fonts for Ubuntu?
All the fonts supplied with Ubuntu Gujarati Language Support have fancy typfaces. The conventional typeface which is seen in all the newspapers is not supplied with Ubuntu. There is a third-party ...
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Firefox fonts gets garbled?
My firefox fonts gets garbled. I don't know why? please help.
Look at the attached image !
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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.
