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Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi: /var/cache/fontconfig Gets Created Before /var Is Mounted

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish, ARM64) on a Raspberry Pi. After imaging the Pi's SSD, I re-partitioned the drive and mirrored the contents of /var onto the new partition (verified), renamed ...
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How do I upload a new font to use with the Gnome Tweaks tool? [duplicate]

Using the Gnome Tweaks tool, I can choose from a list of pre-downloaded fonts but I do not know how to add a new one. I have downloaded a font, specifically Renogare from https://www.dafont.com/...
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Chrome-based browsers show wrongly some letters with diacritics on parts of some websites (Wikipedia, Wiktionary)

This doesn't happen in Firefox or other non-Chrome-based browsers, but it happens in Opera, Thorium or Vivaldi. The name "Țepeș", for example, looks like this: when it should look like this:...
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Urdu Fonts Display Issue on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS - Seeking Solutions

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and encountering issues with Urdu fonts. In various applications such as browsers and text editors, many Urdu words appear broken and fail to join properly. I've attached ...
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Wrong Persian glyphs in default persian font for Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Luckily, the latest version of Ubuntu OS (23.10 Mantic Minotaur) has resolved the issue with the default font by switching it to Noto-Sans Arabic, which also supports Persian. However, there remains ...
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font not working in svg on ubuntu 20.04

on ubuntu 18.04, if I download a font .ttf file and copy it to the ~/.fonts directory, the font appears in libreoffice; then I can save an .svg file with text using that font, and then loading the ....
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Some text titles are missing in FL Studio (through wine inside Ubuntu 22.04)

I've tried installing FL Studio wine flstudio_win64_21.2.2.3914.exe and through snap sudo snap install flstudio --candidate. Both methods install the program itself, but some textual comments below ...
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Font Size 72 screwed up Android Studio [duplicate]

New user here. Reposting this question as I realize people may have thought I was trolling (I assure I'm not, just a genuinely stupid mistake that I don't know how to fix). I dowloaded Android Studio ...
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Mangled characters after distribution upgrade

I recently upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and now all my system characters are squares like: I presume this is because some font I was using in 20.04 no longer exists, and the upgrade process wasn't ...
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Font Size 72 screwed up Studio

New user here. I dowloaded Android Studio today and finished installation and opened the window "Welcome to Android Studio". I configured my theme and scrolled down to the part where it lets ...
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Some sizes of Tahoma font are rendered very badly

Some emails come to me in HTML format and they use the Tahoma font, so switching to another font is something that I cannot do. The Tahoma font is installed on my system. However, some sizes of this ...
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Dell xps 13" font not big enough

i am trying to have a descent reading experience using Dell XPS 13" at 2560x1600px. Is there a uniform solution to adjust the fonts allover or i need to edit the settings in each app? I am ...
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How do I fix the font and icon size on Notepad++ for Wine on Ubuntu?

I installed Wine on Ubuntu for the sole purpose of running Notepad++ on Ubuntu, but the GUI fonts and icons are so small they are unreadable. Below is a full screenshot of my 75" screen (TV as ...
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How can I make all of the windows default font/window smaller? Or zoom to .90 for my entire desktop

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and want to make all of the fonts across all of my applications smaller (like Windows supports). For example, in Windows I could make the zoom level 125%, 150%, 200%. The ...
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Is there a debug guide to solve emojis not dislaying in Terminal Tilix or Guake on Ubuntu 22.04

Frustratingly, I am unable to make emoji render properly in any terminal on up-to-date Ubuntu 22.04. I have them working in the browser (fully expected), LibreOffice, even Emacs shell but not in any ...
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characters in terminal not 100% white and backgournd is not 100% black on terminator window on xfce4

I use two machines often using vnn. One is ubuntu 20.04 unity the other is ubuntu 22.04 xfce4. I used terminator window on both systems. But in the xfce4 case, the character is not 100% white and the ...
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Remove Font Scaling — Font Manager Settings Changed Font Appearance

I think I must have changed a wrong setting in Font Manager: all the system fonts suddenly changed appearance. Before, they were normal, and now they are pixelated and squarish. Text is pixelated and ...
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Looking for the ttf2pt1 package

I need to convert a .ttf (TrueType font) file to .pfa format and according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1676342/generating-afm-from-ttf I need ttf2pt1. However when I try to install it under ...
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Why is the fonts-iosevka package not included in Ubuntu repositories?

I'd like to install the Iosevka font on Ubuntu 22.04. The instructions on the GitHub page say 'install one of the fonts-iosevka packages'. When I do apt-search fonts-, lots of packages for other fonts ...
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Too many Noto fonts after upgrading to 23.10

After upgrading to 23.10 (from 23.04) I noticed that on my system there are more than 220 Noto fonts. This is kind of insane. In today's world of UTF standard why do we have so many fonts for some ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 - Rectangles instead of text on SPAs

While using some SPAs (tested with Teams for Linux and Whatsie), every time I open the Files app through the app itself (to download/upload files), it shows squares instead of the actual text. I ...
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Printing PDF file is missing characters

I open a PDF-file in Document Viewer (Evince) 44.1 in Ubuntu 23.10, and it looks perfect. But when I try to print it, a lot of text/chars is missing. The properties for the PDF file says "All ...
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Powerline font shapes slanted only in prompt

I've got a fresh install of Ubuntu Budgie on a VMWare guest. I use Tilix for my terminal. I installed the powerline fonts on my system to have access to the various shapes it provides. Regardless of ...
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Tamil fonts not rendering properly in chrome and microsoft edge

Recently installed ubuntu 23.10, Chrome and microsoft edge browsers not rendering tamil font properly, some text showing box or crossed box, But in Firefox working fine. how to fix this issue. check ...
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Not all font and colour schemas are selectable in Kate

On my Kate configuration directory (~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/) I have files such as: octave.xml, opencl.xml, orgmode.xml, ... However I have no way to see them when trying to ...
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Font selector drop-list missing from Freehand MX under Wine

I am testing an old abandonware application Macromedia Freehand MX under Wine, which is a vector graphics editor. It seems to work mostly fine. However, the font selector drop-list is missing from the ...
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Unicode text does not render in WSL Ubuntu

My installation of Ubuntu in WSL fails to render Unicode text. Below is a screenshot from Sanskrit Wikipedia. How should I fix it?
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some Persian numbers look broken (seven and four)

I almost have this issue with all newly installed distros. some Persian numbers look so weird. like seven and three. This is how '7' looks like in Persian: In my Kubuntu 23.04 machine (Broken Seven ...
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How to change the system fixed width font using terminal

Need way to change the system fixed width font USING TERMINAL! Because all ways do it using interface was useless for me. I haven't that inferface tabs was I found out in many sites. System spec: OS ...
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Window font size is small on WSL Ubuntu 22.04.3 windows 11

I installed gnuplot on WSL Ubuntu 22.04.3 and created a simple plot. The font for all text is pretty small, as shown in the screenshot below. Is there a global setting for the window font to be set ...
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How do I solve blurry font in Google Chrome?

I just installed Ubuntu and I'm trying to use Lucida Sans across the system. It looks fine everywhere except in the pages in the browser. Is there any way to solve it? Thank you Nptice the difference ...
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Suddenly my font looks worse

I have been using Source Sans Pro in Ubuntu 23.04 without problem. Suddenly, font changed its readability for the system but not in the browser. I would like to know how to fix it. I'm thinking it may ...
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How do I install Urdu fonts in Libreoffice Writer like Jameel Noori Nastaleeq?

I am new user of ubuntu, i dont know how to download any urdu font in libreoffice writer?? fonts like jameel noori nastaleeq
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Libreoffice not displaying fonts properly (Ubuntu 22.04 XFCE)

I'm trying to edit a PDF on LibreOffice Draw and the fonts aren't displaying (or exporting) properly in it which makes editing it very difficult. Here's an image showing what I mean. What do I do?
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Hex characters showing instead of unicode on Ubuntu 22.04 (XFCE)

I was trying to fix an issue I had with Libreoffice not displaying certain fonts properly, and when I tried this solution, every character turned into a square, which a reset fixed. Since then, ...
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How to stop LibreOffice Draw from converting barcodes to numbers when opening a PDF file?

I am using LibreOffice Draw to edit a PDF document which has a barcode printed in it. Draw decodes the barcode and replaces it with numbers as soon as I open the document. The decoded text is of ...
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Changing font styles of lightdm-gtk-greeter

I can change my font using the following option in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf: font-name = ... But I'm not sure how to change the size or weight. I tried putting the following CSS in my GTK theme: #...
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LibreOffice Writter font selection menu is laggy

I am currently using Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Everything is running great except LibreOffice writer font selection menu. Whenever i click on it, it takes some time to response. Then whenever i turn scroll ...
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Why is text width while using FONTCONFIG_PATH are always rounded

I am running chrome and chromium and behavior remains same both browsers. If I don't set FONTCONFIG_PATH environment variable for the browser process, I see floating point numbers such as 136....
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23.04 - Weird spaces around some characters after uninstalling Deepin DE

I wanted to try Deepin DE on my Ubuntu 23.04 system, so I installed it, but I didn’t liked it. I removed all the packages it installed (I put the list in a file so I could remove them later). However ...
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How to redefine font substitution?

I would like to have HelveticaLTStd-Bold substituted with LiberationSans-Bold font. It is already installed in many places: but DejaVu Sans is chosen instead: paul@desktop:~$ fc-match "...
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Printing using a non-mono font and using texttopdf

Well, what's in this article it is written about changing the standard printing font to some other, but for some reason only mono font. And the question arises whether it is possible to do it with a ...
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is it possible to print txt file using vim but change the font in which the text will be printed

my question is fully described in the title "is it possible to print txt file using vim but change the font in which the text will be printed". I found the documentation for vim where it ...
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail", "atk-bridge", "canberra-gtk-module", Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: [duplicate]

I have all these libraries installed: fontconfig is already the newest version (2.13.1-4.2ubuntu5). fontconfig-config is already the newest version (2.13.1-4.2ubuntu5). libatk-bridge2.0-0 is already ...
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail", "atk-bridge", "canberra-gtk-module"

I am trying to vessel with this command vessel sources and I am getting the following errors. I installed these packeges: sudo apt-get install libatk-adaptor:i386 sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-...
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Ubuntu will not print black

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS on a Toshiba Satellite P755. I print on a HP Deskjet 3752 with usb. The printer will put out normal info sheet. ANY document sent from the laptop prints WHITE for any ...
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how to disable ligatures for konsole or just when konsole runs vim

I am using the font https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans it is a great font and I like it. its just that I cannot turn it off in vim with let g:tex_conceal = '' the problem seems to be that ...
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Note taking app with Rich Text Editor (RTE) and cloud sync

I am recently migrated to Linux systems. While I get most of software alternatives I miss OneNote and Evernote kind of note taking apps. I found many open source apps but none of them having rich text ...
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XUbuntu 20.04 LTS with xorg - fonts problem

I'm having trouble displaying my fonts. My system is a XUbuntu 20.04 LTS with lightdm and XServer (xorg modesetting) with its own Labview application. Without gnome. The Xserver uses the bitmap fonts. ...
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Unable to set "italic fonts" for user interface and terminal in ubuntu 22.04

In earlier versions of ubuntu, you could set any type of font (regular, italic, bold etc.) for the user interface using the tweak-tool. Also, the monospace font (such as in terminal, or the gedit app) ...
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