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Whenever I run Terminal or Ctrl-alt-T the terminal will open up for a split second and close itself. If I run gnome-terminal in X Term I get the same problem and the following message:

(gnome-terminal:12319): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_get: the format string may not contain '&' (key 'monospace-font-name' from schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface'). This call will probably stop working with a future version of git.

This happened after I changed the settings in the terminal, how do I fix it?

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  • What setting did you exactly change (and into what?) Nov 27, 2015 at 16:23

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For some reason, the key mentioned in the error message now contains a '&'. To see what its value currently is, open a console terminal, as this won't suffer from this bug: press CTRL + ALT + F1 (or F2...F6), login, and do:

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

To change it, do

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Ubuntu Mono 13'

(or any other value you like).

You can also run Software Center or Synapsis and install dconf-editor. This gives you a GUI that will let you view and change the value of the key.

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    You might want to add he should install dconf editor, since the terminal is inaccessible (I guess xterm will be affected as well) Nov 27, 2015 at 16:59
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    Ah. Hadn't thought of that... (although the OP could always have started one on CTRL+ALT+F1 ;-)
    – Jos
    Nov 27, 2015 at 17:06

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