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Too many Noto fonts after upgrading to 23.10

Please ask Google about the number of fonts. Ubuntu wants to cover a large number of languages by default. But one advantage, compared with the previous font setup, is that users, who don't care about ...
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How to stop LibreOffice Draw from converting barcodes to numbers when opening a PDF file?

According to mikekaganski's answer to the similar question how do i keep barcodes on my document in libreoffice draw? in ask.libreoffice.org: [...] the barcodes are in fact texts using some specific “...
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Why is the fonts-iosevka package not included in Ubuntu repositories?

The string "install one of the fonts-iosevka packages" is a link to a third party repository. You can download it from there if you like. It's not in the Debian/Ubuntu archives because ...
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How to redefine font substitution?

Well, the other question helped deal with the Courier Std font while awaiting a fix upstream. To start with, try replacing this section: <alias binding="same"> <family>CourierStd&...
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"ttf-mscorefonts-installer" Dependency Question

Some answers are readily available in the changelog. Others you can find by browsing the patches, which are documented. Generally, Ubuntu patches are created in response to bugs. The patches are ...
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How to increase font size globally for programs running on wine in ubuntu 20.10?

This can also be adjusted in the winecfg GUI by setting the screen resolution. Not sure if this is the same as changing HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG in the registry, but works for me.
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How to install additional Gimp fonts

I use Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS with Gimp 2.10. Gimp was first installed as snap. Just installing the fonts didn't work. Past the font files to directories Gimp knows fonts are availables didn't work. I had ...
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Garbled text in GUI

I was able to fix this issue by unchecking "Enable 3d Acceleration" in my virtual machines settings.
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Text missing from main titlebar & menus in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

22.04.2 LTS under Wayland. I have been suffering for some time with the same issue. Occasionally I lose all text from widgets, indicators, menus, - everything. Do not know what the cause is yet BUT as ...
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Installed fonts not detected on firefox 99 snap on Ubuntu 22.04

As @DamianYerrick in his comment, this is a bug in the snap version of Firefox (or more correctly, an upstream bug in snapd). As a workaround, there's a interim solution recommended in comment #11 of ...
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Too many Noto fonts after upgrading to 23.10

@GunnarHjalmarsson's answer was about purging the package fonts-noto-core that contains all these fonts. I am grateful for this answer and especially its comments. The fonts-noto-core package really ...
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Some sizes of Tahoma font are rendered very badly

I had a look at the anti aliasing of the Tahoma font you use. I tried out the sizes 10, 10.5, 11, 12, and all in regular, bold, and italic. My tests were run under Ubuntu 23.10. I downloaded and ...
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How can I make all of the windows default font/window smaller? Or zoom to .90 for my entire desktop

Install the application "Tweaks" (Gnome Tweaks). That exposes a setting to change the font scaling on the "Fonts" tab. Alternatively, the setting can be changed using the following ...
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Is there a debug guide to solve emojis not dislaying in Terminal Tilix or Guake on Ubuntu 22.04

TLDR; There are chances that you have the font file in multiple system font folders. Remove those & try installing fonts-noto-color-emoji again. I faced the same issue, even after I installed ...
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Is there a debug guide to solve emojis not dislaying in Terminal Tilix or Guake on Ubuntu 22.04

Whether a glyph is displayed will depend on whether the font you are using supports it. If you switch to one that has emoji support, it should work as you expect. You mentioned Noto in your question, ...
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Looking for the ttf2pt1 package

Apparently the ttf2pt1 package has been superseded by ttf2ufm, which provides the same functionality. See ttf2ufm for more details.
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some Persian numbers look broken (seven and four)

I managed to partially fix the issue by installing these packages: sudo apt install fonts-noto-extra fonts-noto-ui-extra fonts-cantarell fonts-dejavu fonts-farsiweb fonts-freefarsi fonts-freefont-ttf ...
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How to change the system fixed width font using terminal

Solution The configuration value of org.gnome.desktop.interface.monospace-font-name determines the system default fixed width font. You can change the configuration value to whatever font you like ...
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How do I install Urdu fonts in Libreoffice Writer like Jameel Noori Nastaleeq?

I suggest that you install the fonts-noto-core package: sudo apt install fonts-noto-core That will provide the Noto Nastaliq Urdu font.
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How can I add social icons in LibreOffice document?

It is possible to insert icons as special characters by installing the relevant font. e.g. Font Awesome: sudo apt install fonts-font-awesome Be aware this has portability issues since it will require ...
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How can I add social icons in LibreOffice document?

The only real way to get icons like this into your document is to find and obtain the icons online somewhere, resize them, and embed them, such as in PNG or such formats. There's no icon set that ...
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Install the old version of the Ubuntu font

Check this article https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/04/restore-old-fonts-ubuntu-2304/ (I am not the author of it). And hold for packages: $ sudo apt-mark hold fonts-ubuntu fonts-ubuntu-...
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Install the old version of the Ubuntu font

You can download the old fonts-ubuntu package, for instance from here: https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/all/fonts-ubuntu/download Then downgrade by simply installing that package locally. cd to the ...
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how can I increase the terminal text size on ubuntu server?

Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and in the last step select the desired font size. Note that the available font-sizes depend on the font selected in the previous step.
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Gimp ctrl A selection change my font into weird symbols

Here are some bug reports for it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/3104 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/7262 marked as a duplicate of the above Related: https://...
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how to remove non-latin fonts without auto-removing xubuntu-desktop?

Let's first take a minute to appreciate the accomplishment that is Noto. It's certainly a noble thing to want users of any language from Afar to Zulu to be able to see all the characters of their ...
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Font characters displayed as squares in Ubuntu 18.04

I still had the problem on 23.04 with Mate with Ferdium app. I deleted all 3 folders but still have squares instead of letters. What worked for me was removing the snap package and installing the .deb ...
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How to automatically increase Chrome UI size?

The answer is to edit not /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop, but ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop. Copy /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop to ~/.local/share/...
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What is grub2 default font?

Install the unifont like so: $ sudo apt install unifont Choose from the list by searching "uni"
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Fonts totally unreadable

Here is the 2023 update of the solution: sudo apt-get install --reinstall fonts-ubuntu sudo fc-cache -fv
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