Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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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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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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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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How can the Ubuntu font be used with LyX or LaTeX?
I use LyX for creating documents and would like to be able to format the output of my documents so that they use the Ubuntu font.
In the LyX document settings, it appears that there are only a fixed ...
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How to install otf fonts?
I know how to install true-type fonts (by copy them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and do sudo fc-cache -f) but what about otf formats?
I didn't find a suitable folder to copy them.
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Netbeans all menu fonts are bold after upgrade to 12.04 [closed]
After updating ubuntu to 12.04 all fonts got bold. I haven't installed themes or configured fonts.
from netbeans about:
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.1 (Build 201112071828)
Java: 1.7.0_03; ...
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Can I change the Linux console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) font to Ubuntu Mono?
Is there a way to set a specific TTF font to be used on the console? (I believe you might have to convert it to a bitmap font?)
If it needs to be converted, what tools can I use to do the conversion? ...
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How do I increase the font size in Dash?
I am a person with a visual impairment. Pre-Unity versions of Ubuntu allowed you to change all font sizes. Now the Universal Access feature is pretty much useless, as increasing font size to "Large" ...
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Font corruption: lines through characters
I have an odd problem where a one-pixel high white line is displayed through certain letters of text. Almost always only a single character type is affected at once, and only in one font size (though ...
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Where can I get the 'Ubuntu Monospace' font?
Although there is supposed to be a monospace font in the family, the default package doesn't come with it. I tried getting ttf-ubuntu-monospace but there aren't any packages with that name. How/where ...
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How do I change the font DPI settings?
I installed Oneiric on a clean system, and found that the font tab is gone from the Appearance settings. This is a problem, because by default the text in Ubuntu is too large.
I changed the text from ...
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List of fonts containing selected character
On Mac OS X, the Character Viewer (equivalent to Character Map on Ubuntu) has a feature where, when looking at a certain character, it can show a list of all fonts that contain that character. Is ...
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How do I change the line spacing in Terminal?
Is it possible to change the line spacing in Terminal, or is there some other app that allows it? I'm moving from the Mac, and its terminal app has this feature which allows line spacing to be ...
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What is the default Debian/Ubuntu console (TTY) font called?
I'm currently running Ubuntu and a few other Linux distributions on my computer and since I use the TTY a lot, a good font is pretty important!
Does anyone know the name of the default console/TTY ...
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What fonts do I need to install for special characters to work?
What fonts do I need to install on Ubuntu in order to see special characters (💋 for example)?
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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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LibreOffice missing certain Microsoft fonts
I don't have these fonts: times new roman, arial and calibri..., like in microsoft office? What can I do?
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How do I change the font or the font size in the TTY (console)?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Recently, the font size for all of my TTYs became much larger.
How can I change the font size back to the default?
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Changing the default Grub font
I've been able to change the default font of Grub, by using
grub-mkfont -s 16 -o /boot/grub/grubfont.pf2 font.tty
and then adding the following line to /etc/default/grub:
...
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Is there a good mono-spaced font for Devanagari script in the Terminal?
All the terminal fonts I have tried result in inaccurate rendering of the Devanagari sript (and/or Roman script) in the Terminal
In the Devanagari script, a vowel binds itself to a preceding ...
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Why does the “monospace” font look great in Terminal and gedit, and terrible in IntelliJ IDEA?
Why does the "monospace" font look great in Terminal and gedit, and terrible in IntelliJ IDEA? IDEA uses Java's Swing library, and I understand it might be an issue with this. Is there a known fix?
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How can I bypass this fontconfig warning to edit grub successfully?
I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 with no problem. I am trying to edit the grub file, but in the console I get the following message:
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf",
line 9: ...
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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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How can I specify a more appropriate font substitution?
A particular PDF I have uses a non-embedded font named "TimesNRMT" that is not installed on my system. Instead of substituting the font with a similar one such as Times New Roman, Document Viewer is ...
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Reverse rendering of Urdu fonts
I am working on a project that is based on Urdu language in Ubuntu platform. I'm using Python language and have almost achieved my task.
The problem is that, the Urdu text is rendered in reverse ...
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Is there a graphical way of installing fonts in 11.10/Gnome 3 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install fonts?
When testing 11.10, I wanted to install some fonts. However, it seems that I cannot simply double click a font file to install it. I've tried ...
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How to fix fonts in Google Earth 6?
I downloaded and installed Google Earth 6 64-bit from its website. And then like many users, I also encountered the ugly fonts on starting the app. I've tried installing lsb-core and ...
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Terminal font is buggy
After my fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10, I noticed that the terminal's font is smashed together and altogether awful-looking.
Does anyone have a solution or workaround? I've been trying to find one ...
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Some applications use “archaic” character instead of modern Japanese one
I just installed Natty from scratch with default options and English UI. I did not change any font settings.
I happen to also read Japanese, it mostly displays fine but the 社 character (meaning ...
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Reset gnome font configuration?
How do I reset the font settings - actual font and size - to their default?
(I changed some values in System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts)
This is particularly important with the new Ubuntu font ...
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How to change font size in emacs?
I download emacs with 'sudo apt-get install emacs'. When I run emacs, I see emacs with too big fonts. I don't know why the default setup to have normal font size in emacs. How can I do that?
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How to save font choice in gVim?
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. Whenever I open the gvim application, I have to select a custom font (Edit→Select font). I would like gvim to remember my choice. Perhaps I need to edit the ~/.vimrc file, I ...
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How to enable sub pixel hinting?
Fonts are displayed a little bit blurry on my TFT screen. I fixed this in previous Ubuntu releases by enabling sub pixel hinting in the font settings. But now I can't find any font settings dialog in ...
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Fonts in menu are larger than they should be under Awesome WM
I upgraded to oneiric ocelot, running awesome wm. Everything works, more or less, fine but one thing I've noticed is that now my menu fonts and my menu symbols are larger than I'd like them to be.
I ...
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How do I change the default font to “Ubuntu” on OpenOffice.org?
By default, the OpenOffice.org font is Liberation Serif. How do I change this behavior, so that "Ubuntu" becomes the default font?
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Font viewer for font collectors?
I have a huge font collection and would like to be able to view them
in an efficient manner rather than opening a file one by one.
What would be the best font viewer aside from fontypython, which ...
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How does ubuntu render fonts better, than other main linux distributions?
I have often observed that in other distributions (not Ubuntu derivatives) even after enabling font hinting and rgb aliasing, the fonts dont look as good as Ubuntu.
What are the specific ...
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What is the “fontconfig” folder in my home ? May I delete it?
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10. In the process, a new folder appeared in my home directory, called "fontconfig". It includes some 24 files with a ".cache-3" extension. This happened ...
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Is it possible to change Unity Panel fonts or font size?
Is it possible to change the font or at least the font size of text in Unity's indicator panel (for things like the clock and system indicator monitor) without changing Application Font size from the ...
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Why do fonts look horrible in any java application?
All fonts in java applications look horrible. I have seen a few questions about this previously, but they are quite old now (11.04 was the most recent, but that didn't seem to be the same problem). ...
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Are x11 bitmapped fonts necessary?
Are the x11 100 and 75 dpi fonts absolutely necessary?
If Ubuntu has TrueType support, (as well as OpenType) why do I need all those bit-mapped fonts hanging around?
Can I delete them? (and/or ...
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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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Blurry fonts after upgrading to 10.04
Recently I upgraded from 8.04 LTS to 10.04. The previous version had some problems regarding screen settings. X only recognised 1024x768 as resolution of my monitor, mainly because the monitor was not ...
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When is the Hebrew/Arabic Ubuntu font due to be implemented?
Reading Canonical Design's post 4 months ago made me really intrigued using 11.04.. yet, we're already in Beta 1, feature freeze and all, and no fonts.
Is this still due to be implemented in this ...
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Weird font hinting in Firefox 4
I know this a recurrent topic but I just can't find a decent solution--although I found one for Chrome.
Just take look at the following screenshots:
Chrome 9
Firefox 4
See the slight ...
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How to fix font rendering (no anti-aliasing) in Unity global menu and search?
Since I've upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10, Unity's global menu and search are having font rendering problems (no anti-aliasing, bad font sizes). No problem in sub-menus.
The font rendering ...
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Ugly font after KDE installation
You all know the nice default font that come with Ubuntu, right?
I just wanted to play a little bit with Kubuntu and installed the meta package
kubuntu-desktop
Everything was fine, however the ...
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Configure fontconfig to ignore bitmaps in scalable fonts
I have the Microsoft C-Fonts installed, and they're wonderful. However, Calibri appears as a bitmap font in a lot of the sizes that it appears. How do I tell fontconfig to forbid Calibri (and ...
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Installing other fonts on wine
Is there a way to install fonts on wine?
I'm looking to install fonts so i can use them to render text differently on various apps. Specifically myriad.
