Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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How to change desktop font color in xfce when using nautilus to show desktop
I'm trying to change the desktop font color in xubuntu after I replaced thunar with nautilus to be the default file manager. Right now I have gray text color which is not visible on almost any ...
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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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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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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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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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Ugly fonts in Netbeans - How can i make it use the system font?
I'm having problems getting the Netbeans font to look nice, this has been a problem ever since I tried Ubuntu ~8. For some reason fonts look like they're not getting subpixel smoothing in Netbeans ...
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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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How can I set and get the tty console font?
1.How can I set the font and size of the TTYs?
The command:
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
allows me to choose certain fonts/sizes that cannot be installed (an error message appears after the ...
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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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Setting font for app using gtk 1.2.10
I have an old application that is compiled with gtk and glib version 1.2.10. I cannot change this. I've been running it on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS for a few months now without any real issues. The other ...
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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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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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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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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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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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What is grub2 default font?
what is ubuntu 12.04 grub2 default font? I changed it and don't know what it was to change it back. I have tried many different font and style to no avail.
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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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How can I make fonts look like they do in Windows?
Fonts look bad and blurry in Ubuntu. When I compare a site in Ubuntu and Windows the Windows font look much more readable even after I import all of my Windows fonts. How can I change this?
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How do I change fonts and adjust their size?
I've been finding fonts on the internet and installing them on my system.
What's the easiest way to change my fonts? I would prefer an easy to use graphical way, but answers with command line ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to use the new Adobe Source Code Pro font?
Adobe released a new, open source font family called "Source Code Pro" (download here, Slashdot article here). How do I install it?
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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 do I change the icon and text color?
Suddenly all of my icons and the text under the icons became grey in color.
I want the theme to be as it was when I first installed Ubuntu 11.10. The menu color was dark grey and icons were orange or ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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?
