Questions tagged [fonts]
Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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How do I install fonts?
How do I install fonts on Ubuntu Linux? I need them to be available in gimp.
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How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?
After a recent update, ttf-mscorefonts-installer prompted me to accept its license agreement.
┌─────────────────┤ Configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer ├─────────────────┐
│ ...
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How can I make my shell prompt look like a cheeseburger?
I want my shell prompt to look like a cheeseburger! 🍔🍔🍔
It would be nice if it also displayed: username, hostname, and current directory.
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How to install many font files quickly and easily?
I need to install more than 100 fonts, so I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this task?
I know you can opening every single one and pressing install font, but installing more then 100 ...
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How do I change fonts and adjust their size?
I've been finding fonts on the internet and installing them on my system.
What's the easiest way to change my fonts? I would prefer an easy to use graphical way, but answers with command line ...
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How to change the default font size of XTerm?
XTerm font is very small. How can I set it larger?
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How to install OTF fonts?
I know how to install TrueType fonts (by copying them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and doing sudo fc-cache -f) but what about OTF formats?
I didn't find a suitable folder to copy them to.
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"Failure to download extra data files" after installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer
After fresh install 12.04 I && updating apt and system restart, I always get this annoying message after reboot :
Failure to download extra data files
The following packages requested ...
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How to use the Adobe Source Code Pro font?
Adobe released an open source font family called "Source Code Pro" (download here, Slashdot article here). How do I install it?
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How do I fix fonts not rendering and missing letters?
I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.10 on my laptop. It appears that letters are missing from files and folders, as well as menus and configuration windows. I'm not sure where to start in order ...
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Failure to download extra data files - ttf-mscorefonts-installer [duplicate]
This is an old problem that deserves a bugfix, but it's getting beyond a joke now and I can't seem to work around it.
I keep getting the dreaded failed To download extra data files error in relation ...
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How do I change the font or the font size in the TTY (console)?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Recently, the font size for all of my TTYs became much larger.
How can I change the font size back to the default?
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How can I determine which fonts are installed from the command line, and what is the easiest way to install more?
There are many questions and answers regarding fonts on Ubuntu, but not so many dealing with Ubuntu for Embedded Linux, such as Beaglebone Black.
I have not been able to locate any .ttf files in ...
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"Failure to download extra data files" with ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 16.04
I have been receiving notifications about "failure to download extra data files" from update notifier. It asked me to download fonts in request from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. However, ...
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Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen
How can I adapt Ubuntu to a high resolution display?
I have a display with 3200x1600px on only 11'' and everything looks really tiny.
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How to install Arial font (and other Windows fonts) in ubuntu?
How to install Arial font in Ubuntu?
I found many ways to install fonts in Ubuntu but I didn't find any proper way or method to install (particularly) Arial fonts in Ubuntu.
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Is it possible to change the Terminal font?
I would like to change the font in the Terminal, how can I achieve this?
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Ugly fonts in Netbeans - How can i make it use the system font?
I'm having problems getting the Netbeans font to look nice, this has been a problem ever since I tried Ubuntu ~8. For some reason fonts look like they're not getting subpixel smoothing in Netbeans ...
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How to make ttf-mscorefonts-installer package download fonts, after it says it installed?
When I install "Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts" (ttf-mscorefonts-installer) from the Software Center on 14.04, it gives a positive response--but after this I get a download error. It ...
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How can I make fonts look like they do in Windows?
Fonts look bad and blurry in Ubuntu. When I compare a site in Ubuntu and Windows the Windows font look much more readable even after I import all of my Windows fonts. How can I change this?
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Mscorefonts problems
I tried installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer from the terminal, because I want to use Wine.
It looked kind of like it failed on the Comic Sans part. Viewing it just displays the text in another font.
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Installing Times New Roman font
How can I install the Times New Roman font? This video illustrates what I want to do, but I do not have the same options - I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.
I have also tried running the following from the ...
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How to locate a font in Ubuntu?
Ubuntu desktop with 12.04 is about to crash. Installed 13.04 on a new machine, want to transfer Book Antiqua font from old machine to the new one. How do I find it on the old machine? My /usr ...
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What is the default Debian/Ubuntu console (TTY) font called?
I'm currently running Ubuntu and a few other Linux distributions on my computer and since I use the TTY a lot, a good font is pretty important!
Does anyone know the name of the default console/TTY ...
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How to delete fonts in ubuntu
How to delete fonts in ubuntu. I am a new ubuntu user and find it hard to delete fonts that I have installed.
I anticipate that the problem might be installing font that turns my Firefox browser ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 interface font too small after restart, even with high scaling factor
So I was configuring VS code on my Notebook when suddenly I noticed that my interface font got really small on my desktop, terminal and files.
I use Gnome Tweaks Tool to increase my scaling factor to ...
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Netbeans all menu fonts are bold after upgrade to 12.04
After updating ubuntu to 12.04 all fonts got bold. I haven't installed themes or configured fonts.
from netbeans about:
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.1 (Build 201112071828)
Java: 1.7.0_03; Java ...
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Font viewer for font collectors?
I have a huge font collection and would like to be able to view them
in an efficient manner rather than opening a file one by one.
What would be the best font viewer aside from fontypython, which ...
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Use emoji inside terminal
OS X has emoji support inside terminal, and I'm a little jelly.
Emoji One Color SVGinOT Font brings emoji support to Ubuntu, but at the moment the terminal will only render monochrome emojis.
Is ...
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How to fix missing characters from font after awakening from suspend?
I find that often after awakening from suspend on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20 (I have only found this issue on the latest version, though I have not tried with GNOME 3.18 on 16.04) that I get ...
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Ubuntu appears very small at 1080p, text almost undreadable
I have a 15" Dell Studio XPS with a 1080p screen. Everything seems tiny with 1080p, in 720p everything is fine but just looks very low-res.
So I definitely want to get the full resolution the ...
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How to install ttf fonts? [duplicate]
I want to install a font from true type of font of my own. where should I install my font in ubuntu?
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Can I change the Linux console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) font to Ubuntu Mono?
Is there a way to set a specific TTF font to be used on the console? (I believe you might have to convert it to a bitmap font?)
If it needs to be converted, what tools can I use to do the conversion? ...
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PDF metadata viewer / tag editor for Ubuntu
There are a lot of questions and answers regarding the best PDF viewer available with Ubuntu, but I want to parse the PDF file and know details of PDF, such as images, fonts and links that are ...
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Font characters displayed as squares in Ubuntu 18.04
Recently, on my Ubuntu 18.04 I have noticed that at least on gnome-calculator and chromium browser the fonts are displayed as squares. I have followed instructions here and here, the calculator is ...
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How do I increase the font size in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for a HDPI / 4K display?
I have a Dell XPS 15-9560 laptop with 15.6" 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) IGZO IPS 350-nits Touch-screen, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX1050 4GB GDDR5.
It's having 4K resolution. Right from the grub screen to ...
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Installing other fonts on wine
Is there a way to install fonts on wine?
I'm looking to install fonts so i can use them to render text differently on various apps. Specifically myriad.
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Urdu fonts not rendering properly in Chrome
Chrome in Ubuntu is not rendering Urdu fonts properly. It is showing gibberish characters I'm not able to read. The problem is especially bad on Facebook.
I copied some Urdu fonts under ~/.fonts and ...
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The Unicode look of disapproval no longer displays correctly in 16.04 - how do I fix this?
The Unicode look of disapproval no longer displays correctly within Chrome and Firefox in Ubuntu 16.04:
As you can see, the Unicode replacement character is shown instead of the correct symbol.
This ...
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How do I resolve missing characters in my unicode font?
I have tried Firefox and Chrome and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and there seems to be a sizeable chunk of Unicode characters that I cannot render.
Here is one example, and here is another example.
What is ...
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What is the closest font to Helvetica available on Ubuntu?
As I understand we don't have the font Helvetica in Ubuntu. Is there any font that is very similar to it? How can I install it?
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How to change the font of various terminal emulators?
Mainly:
Gnome Terminal
Xfce Terminal
Konsole
LXTerminal
Terminator
Guake
Yakuake
Urxvt
Xterm
Mrxvt
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LibreOffice missing certain Microsoft fonts
I don't have these fonts: times new roman, arial and calibri..., like in microsoft office? What can I do?
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How to install the Monaco font?
Monaco is the default font in the iTerm terminal for Mac OS X. How can I install it on Ubuntu?
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How do I reset gnome font configuration?
How do I reset the font settings - actual font and size - to their default?
(I changed some values in System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts)
This is particularly important with the new Ubuntu font ...
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How can I enable font smoothing when I connect to a Windows server with Terminal Services Client?
When I fire up remote desktop on Windows and connect to my server (Windows Server 2008), the fonts look pretty smooth. I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 yesterday and when I use rdesktop to connect the ...
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What is the "fontconfig" folder in my home directory? May I delete it?
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10. In the process, a new folder appeared in my home directory called fontconfig. It includes some 24 files with a .cache-3 extension. This happened on ...
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LibreOffice - Calibri font availible when opening a doc but not in dropdown
When I open a document sent to me by a colleague Calibri seems to work font as expected with the document:
But when I create a document on the same computer the Calibri font isn't available in the ...
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How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?
Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?
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Firefox freezing with 100% CPU usage for 30 seconds when launching Chromium
Recently I started to observe this very confusing and annoying, not to say worrying behaviour when having Firefox open and then launching Chromium:
For around 30 seconds, Firefox' child processes ...
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