A font is an entire set of glyphs that make up a typeface. Installing a font allows the user to use that font in order to change the appearance of text on an output device such as a screen or printer.
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How to list console and kernel fonts?
I have a number of console fonts installed in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/ installed.
How do I list them (obviously all I can do, is just look at the filenames, but not at a list at available fonts).
How ...
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How do font managers work in Fedora?
I am looking to do some font management on my Fedora system. I have installed both Font Manager and Fontmatrix. My goal was to be able to have more fonts installed than I wanted displayed, and to be ...
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Linux Mint 12 font glitches
All fonts in the Mint 12 installation are displayed with glitches, especially the numbers and symbols.
This started happening after switching between some of the default themes.
No other changes ...
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What is the default font for Grub in Ubuntu and Fedora?
I was wondering what the name of the font is for the grub set by default after installation in Ubuntu and Fedora (they are different ones). Any help would be great!
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imagemagick display: different text in font preview
The awesome display command from imagemagick allows me to preview fonts:
display ~/.fonts/font.ttf
However, the text is always the same ('That which does not destroy me, only makes me stronger'). ...
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Decrease the font size in Cinnamon from the command line
While I was playing with Cinnamon settings I set the font size to 990 from the font icon available in cinnamon settings. Now I can't use any applications because of the font. It garbles the whole ...
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Arclinux running xfce4 fails to start
I run archlinux xfce4 with auto-login and auto start. After upgrading today 07-MAY-13 the X fails without leaving a error message in Xorg.0.log.
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Russian characters instead of French or German, with Helvetica font
I was having problems with websites requiring the Helvetica family-font in their css: all special french and german characters were replaced by unrelated russian characters.
That put me on the track ...
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Xtightvnc: Ubuntu gnome-session-fallback: Fonts problem
I'm running a tightvnc server on Ubuntu 11.04 with a Gnome fallback session. Things seem to work fine except that when I try launching an application that needs xfonts-100dpi. All application menus ...
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missing pieces of certain letters in text in Linux Mint
My problem is that as I type this message, in the second word, "problem", there are horizontal slices of missing bits in both the l and the m.
Following perusal of a similar question on the askUbuntu ...
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Emacs complains: font 'serif 10' is not defined
I am running Linux Mint 12 and trying to start emacs but keep getting this error:
font 'serif 10' is not defined
It seems obvious to me that I don't have the correct font. However, I cannot for ...
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Fontconfig default unavailable font selection, How is it defined in the XML configs? Couldn't locate in documentation
I've worked with Fontconfig previously, and understand how to do most of the common configurations. All my aliases work as expected, and I'm almost completely finished.
I'm trying to set the default ...
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Fonts of some applications get confused
I am running Debian Testing with LXDE.
After some time of work, some applications begin to show confused fonts, as shown in the following screenshot (the pdf specific area is good):
This happens ...
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Changing order of font style
Is it possible to change the order of font style?
In qtconfig-qt4, the default style was no longer Regular. Is it possible to re-order it?
Maybe with something in /etc/fonts/conf.d? Anyone know ...
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Font rendering - Infinality patches on Ubuntu
There is a Ubuntu PPA https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter= with patches for Infinality оn Freetype and Cairo for 11.04 11.10 12.04 12.10 13.04
But the updates ...
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Debian Console Font with Nvidia Drivers?
On my Debian Squeeze (6.x) installation my system had a nice small login shell font (terminus??) but after installing the nvidia drivers for my machine it boots up using a very chunky font (on a 24 ...
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Printing PDF with not embedded TrueType Font (cups / lpr)
I have a PDF in which the TrueType font OCRB is used, however the font is not embedded.
So I tried to install the font on my system (which is by the way a SLES11 SP2), I did the following things:
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Problem when I use the webdings font in firefox or inkscape
I installed the webdings font in my computer, and it works well with LibreOffice.
But when I use the webdings font in a local html page : it doesn't work, the following unicode character is diplayed ...
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How to change font substitutions in kpdf?
I'm trying to read a pdf that was created with MSWord using Garamond and kpdf is substituting 'Deja Vu Sans'. But I've got Palladio! Where can I change it?
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Chromium does not honer Fontconfig fallbacks? Can I set it for that? Or manually specify?
Chromium is not honoring font matching, set by Fontconfig. If webpage CSS specifies fantasy, Chromium chooses Impact.
Fontconfig Configuration for fantasy,
$ fc-match fantasy
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What's the difference between config fonts in /etc/fonts/conf.d and gnome-tweak-tool?
I can change the hinting and sub-pixel settings from /etc/fonts/conf.d or gnome-tweak-tool. What's the difference of those two methods?
It seems to me that google-chrome and gnome-terminal changes ...
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VNC: Text/fonts not showing up on XFCE tip of day window?
Using FreeBSD 8.2. Setup a vncserver on my FreeBSD machine. Accessing it from Windows using Tightvnc Viewer. Most fonts show up fine. However my Xfce tip of the day window shows up blank. If I ...
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How to disable Dejavu sans at global level? And what font could be the substitute?
I'm fed up with one DejaVu Sans rendering bug, which I call "forever bug" (bug that gets it's problem somewhat negated or behavior changed between releases, but never fixed). I have problem with dot ...
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Centos 6.4 Font and Icon Problems
I have a 64 bit i7 computer that has AMD Radeon 7700m and 1920x1080 screen resolution.
I have installed Centos and I have Gnome installed on it. I have very small fonts and icons at many programs. I ...
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Unable to open EPS files
I am unable to open eps files in my machine. I have attached the screenshots of what happens when try to view a eps file with default pdf viewer and ghost script viewer (gv). The condition is same ...
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Why is my interface font larger with LibreOffice than with other GTK applications?
I installed LibreOffice and the libreoffice-gtk package. The GUI has the same appearance as other GTK applications, however, the fonts in the interface appear to be 1.5 to 2 times larger than those in ...
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KDE with splotchy fonts in gtk apps
In KDE I occasionally get splotchy fonts in gtk applications.
Splotchy-ness can range from slightly annoying to completely unreadable.
As far as I can tell, the problem only occurs in gtk apps, and ...
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Font list not refreshing in apps in debian
I copied a bunch of .ttf and otf fonts into ~/.fonts, made sure permissions where set to my user/group and ran fc-cache ~/.fonts.
Opened up GIMP and Geany but the fonts aren't available. Any idea ...
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MS fonts not rendering in the browser on Arch
I installed the ttf-ms-fonts package from the AUR repositories and they seem to have installed fine, I can use them on text editors without any problems. However when I go to a website using Chrome ...
