1

I need to check font and font-family that is displaying on the desktop screen. How can I do this from command line.

Improve this question
4
  • Ubuntu 12.10 already reached EOL.
    – Avinash Raj
    Jun 3, 2014 at 16:35
  • Yes I know about it but is there any generalized command or utility that can use.
    – user2622247
    Jun 3, 2014 at 16:38
  • Where on the screen? Are you looking to parse what's actually used on the screen at a given moment, or just work out what the system-set fonts are?
    – Oli ♦
    Jun 3, 2014 at 16:42
  • I just want to check which are the system-set fonts. But from command line.
    – user2622247
    Jun 3, 2014 at 16:49

2 Answers 2

Reset to default
4

The following commands should help you:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name

On my system I get:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name
'Sans 11'
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 
'Ubuntu 11'
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
'Ubuntu Mono 13'
Improve this answer
1
  • sorry out of town...
    – user2622247
    Jun 13, 2014 at 7:19
1

Sylvain Pineau beat me to it...

I suppose you could check gsettings. Do a list-keys to get the font based keys on the org.gnome.desktop.interface schema, while grepping for font:

$ gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.interface | grep font

monospace-font-name
font-name
document-font-name

From there, you can invoke a gsettings get for each, as Sylvain explained. Ex:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name
Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .