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 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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Italics in Emacs on a text terminal (rxvt-unicode)
I am using Emacs running in an urxvt, and I cannot get italics to work in Emacs although the terminal supports it.
Here’s my current setup:
I haven’t set $TERM, so it is the default ...
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How to view a TTF font file?
Is there an application to simply preview a font from a TTF file without installing it?
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How does Linux manage fonts?
When I used Windows (a very very long time ago!), and Mac OS X, there was always a central "repository" of fonts shared and accessed by the OS and all programs (the font folder in Windows, and Font ...
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Improve the font rendering in Fedora
I was using Ubuntu and recently moved to Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. I am not at all impressed with the subpixel smoothing and fonts in Fedora. How do I improve the readability and quality?
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What is the font used for GNU documentation?
I am interested in learning how documentation for GNU related software is written, and am wondering what type of font is used in their PDF documentation? (for instance, the GCC manual here: ...
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Increase font size in rxvt-unicode without editing ~/.Xdefaults
I am a loyal Linux fan who has been spending a lot of time using iTerm on a mac lately. One thing I really like about the mac, and iTerm in particular, is the ability to use a keyboard shortcut to ...
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Can I install some debs from Ubuntu on Debian Squeeze to get nice font rendering?
I have both Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04 machines; the font rendering in 10.04/10.10 is beautiful out of the box but Squeeze is still ugly even after hours and hours of messing with ...
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Using ~/.fonts.conf to change the weight of monospace fonts
On OS X, monospaced fonts are slightly more weighted than the other fonts. This (I feel) helps bring out the colors more vividly.
Since I am on Linux, I'm trying to replicate the behavior. I'm ...
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Font size issues with Emacs in linum-mode
I am using Emacs 23. linum-mode works well if using with default settings.
But if I increase the font size, the numbers cannot be displayed. It seems the the frame to display the line numbers is not ...
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How do I use a font in .ttc format as the console font?
I rather dislike the available tty fonts and would rather use Menlo, which is what I use in OS X's Terminal. Menlo is in a .ttc format, but (from the contents of /usr/share/consolefonts) Linux seems ...
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How can I install MS Windows fonts on Fedora 15?
I've just installed Fedora 15 and here is some troubles with fonts. How can I install MS fonts?
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emacs does not see my fonts in gentoo
I copied my ~/.emacs file from ubuntu linux; I've installed Consolas font (and it works in gnome terminal, and as a default Monospace font); but Emacs does not see it
(custom-set-faces '(default ((t ...
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What fonts are good for unicode glyphs
So I was looking at this answer on stackoverflow and realized that my fonts aren't covering a whole lot of the utf-8 unicode spectrum (as I get lots of squares). Does anyone know a font that will ...
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Font getting reset in virtual console on GNU/Linux
I have set a custom font on my virtual console (vt1) using the following command:
shell> setfont ter-114f
If I switch to X (using Ctrl+Alt+F7) and come back to the virtual console (using ...
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How to get good (Windows-like) font rendering on Linux Mint KDE
I'm using Linux Mint 13 KDE. I installed a TrueType font that I have and like (Arrus BT). I've noticed that the font rendering is noticeably worse on Linux. If I set hinting to none or slight, the ...
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Fedora 17 : Cannot open font file True
Each time I login to Fedora 17, no GUI, just a console, I notice this error:
Cannot open font file True
I have followed some tutorial on web to fix this problem, but still cannot. Here some ...
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Disable bold font in urxvt
I want to disable the bold font in my urxvt config (.Xresources). xterm has the option allowBoldFonts. Is there a similar option for urxvt? I can't find anything similar.
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How do I add Xft suppport to dwm?
I would like to use the inconsolata font in dwm's statusbar. Right now my config.h is set up like so using terminus:
static const char font[] = "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
I ...
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russian letters in gentoo console as '?'
I managed to get russian language working in my Gnome apps, but neither in the console (Alt-Shift-F2 and such) nor in the Gnome Terminal
valyagentoo va1en0k # locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
...
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Text editor with font-size selection for specific human languages (ie. Unicode Block) eg Devanagari
Pre Linux, I used Windows.. (too many years in the wilderness :) ... however there was a ray of sunshine in amongst all the general virus/re-install flack.. and that was Notepad++, a text Editor I ...
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List of available fonts with samples
I want to list all installed fonts on my system and view them to choose one for some purpose. How is that possible? Is there a program, which can provide sort of gallery of installed fonts?
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Use or convert .ttf font for console use in FreeBSD
I have a monospace .ttf font I really like (UbuntuBeta Mono). Is there any way I can use it (or convert first and then use, if needed) for the console in freeBSD?
I know there is ...
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rxvt and Inconsolata (a font)
Is it possible to use the rxvt terminal emulator with Inconsolata? Is it possible to use any TrueType fonts with rxvt? I'd like to use rxvt but would love to use my own fonts.
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How to block glyph fallback on Linux?
I want to block font substitution in specific apps on Linux, but my research indicates that it might be controlled only at the system level, probably with fontconfig. I have found some discussion of ...
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How to find out how fc-match matches?
When I run fc-mach Sans, it returns DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" but if it is run like fc-match "Sans " or fc-match "Sans 9" it returns unifont.ttf: "unifont" "Medium". I prefer to always use ...
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how to make XTerm never use bold characters?
I am trying to make XTerm to never use a bold font, and nothing seems to work. I put settings in ~/.Xresources and then run xrdb ~/.Xresources and then start a new XTerm. This is what I try:
...
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How do I configure setfont and loadkeys properly?
I'm installing LFS and I'm struggling with this section. My locale is sv_SE.UTF-8 and I have a Swedish keyboard. So I suppose I should enable unicode and that the keymap is sv-latin1:
cat > ...
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Emacs font size changes frame size?
I'm using emacs 23.1.1. I set the font size in my .emacs with
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 100)
The problem is that my emacs is now really small. The outer box (what I call a window and ...
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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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Deciding on a font, and determining the proper notation
I have an X11 program that allows you to set a font. It apparently accepts the 'standard' X Logical Font Description. This notation is fairly obscure, and while the document I linked to mentions it, ...
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Install Ubuntu's font in other OSes?
Ubuntu has its own font for its UI in the past couple of releases.
Is there a way to get this font in other GNU/Linux distros? Does the font come in its own file?
Thanks.
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Meaning of different tokens in a font config string
I have seen lines like the one below, in a number of config files (xmobar has one of these and dmenu too has this)
'-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
What is the meaning of each token which is ...
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Can GRUB font size be customised?
I would like to reduce the size of the font of GRUB boot loader. Is it possible and so how?
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Can I change the font of terminal?
I have a Un*x OS installed without desktop, I wonder if it is possible to change the font of terminal.
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Why do some characters show as squares in Chrome?
For example in the dev tools I get something like:
Some of these squares are at the end of lines, initially I thought they were carriage returns but it turns out they aren't.
Also, squares appear ...
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Tips for improved font rendering and readability in Ubuntu with KDE
I am having difficulty using Kubuntu (or GNOME) for work because text readability is quite poor (read headache inducing) compared to Windows Vista/7 and OS X. Any tips on how to improve font rendering ...
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How do I permanently increase the font size in mrxvt?
The Ctrl+= hotkey increases the font size for the current session in mrxvt. What configuration option will increase the font size permanently?
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How to increase the TTY fontsize?
I have a fedora machine, I am used to working on CLI since I had CRT monitor, after switching to TFT - the experience is not the same I had with CRT, the font is smaller now.
How to change it?
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Change the default font size for single account in KDE
Recently, I got a new wide screen monitor and had to change my desktop size. Now when I log in, the font size for window titles, buttons, task bar items, etc. is too big. In fact, sometimes it is ...
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Setting console font in vconsole.conf does not work (systemd)
I am trying to set a different default console font for my new Arch Linux installation (using systemd).
I set up my vconsole.conf in /etc as so:
KEYMAP=us
FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
I rebooted and saw ...
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Qt programs have Greek fonts on one Debian account (QtConfig, Virtualbox and VLC)
Update: I have created a new user via adduser and Virtualbox fonts are OK there. This does not solve my problem, however... I still don't know what is going on and I'd like my own user account to have ...
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Convert .bdf/.pcf font to .psf(u) for using as consolefont?
I am using Arch Linux.
Is it possible to convert a BDF or PCF font to a PSF font for use in console/CONSOLEFONT in rc.conf?
I haven't found anything that can do it,except bdf2psf which I got the ...
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X.org missing fonts
I have a font installed (7x14, part of the xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps package), which I would like to use in my xterm. Problem is, X won't let me.
X seems to pick up the font dir:
# grep -A 3 FontPath ...
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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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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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Change font color and shadow from titlebar in window manager
I'm trying Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE, and want to use a specific theme; only drawback - the font color and font shadow are unreadable, how can I change them?
Also the active/inactive color window ...
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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 to install fonts for X?
I would like to setup a Linux system with ScrotWM as the window manager, but I noticed that X is aware of only a few fonts. I would like to have UTF-8 fonts that support multiple languages, including ...
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How can I customize the look of Thunderbird's mailbox list, message list, and headers?
Mozilla Thunderbird's message list, mailbox list, and headers use a font size that is so large, I can barely see any content in the message preview pane. I'd like to reduce these to 10px, and reduce ...
