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How can I change the default Terminal font?
To change font in the Terminal you need dconf-editor. Install it, if you haven't done so:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Run it and go to path org > gnome > desktop > interface > monospace-font-...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
To change the font of just the terminal (pantheon-terminal), you can use the dconf-editor (requires an install) or the gsettings command. Edit the font property in the org.pantheon.terminal.settings ...
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How can I change the font size used by the desktop?
Quick Fix - Text Scaling
You can increase the text size of most interface elements by turning on 'Large Text' in the Universal Access settings.
Applications Menu -> System Settings -> Universal ...
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How to install Microsoft font on Freya?
Just try this on your terminal:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
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How do I install and use custom fonts?
They should be placed in the following folders
For personal use
TTF files in ~/.local/share/fonts/truetype (old way was ~/.fonts/truetype)
OTF files in ~/.local/share/fonts/type1 (old way was ~/....
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Can I scale everything at 125%?
I think what you may be looking for can be done by using dconf-editor. If you do not have it installed, you can do so in Terminal with this:
sudo apt install dconf-editor
Once installed, open dconf-...
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Where to download elementary OS fonts for use in Ubuntu?
The good news is, you may find that many of the fonts used in elementary OS are already in Ubuntu! They are:
Raleway (logotype font)
Droid Sans (window titles)
Open Sans (various)
Alternative, you ...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
For versions 5.0 above:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings font 'FiraCode 10'
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Fonts looks weird at Loki (and just in my user session!). How do I fix it?
I solved it after googling a while; this applies to all gnome based enviroments (at least according to this)
Just run the following lines on terminal, then reset the system normally. Done.
gsettings ...
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How do I make the terminal font a little brighter?
If you want to change the font color, you can use Configurator. Once you've installed the application, you go to org.pantheon.terminal.settings and change the value of foreground to any color you want....
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How do I install and use custom fonts?
TrueType fonts can be installed from file manager - double click the .ttf file, font manager will open, click "install".
To install multiple fonts system wide:
ttf files:
$ sudo cp ./yourpath/*.ttf /...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
If you already havent, install elementary-tweaks (For elementary freya):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks
Then ...
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What system fonts should not be deleted?
Elementary OS System Fonts:
Default Font: Droid Sans Regular
Document Font: Open Sans Regular
Monospace Font: Droid Sans Mono Regular
Titlebar Font: Droid Sans Bold
I recommend you to save all ...
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What is the default font used by the terminal in elementary os?
The default font for terminal is Roboto Mono 10.
You can find all default variables at this repository on github.com :
elementary/default-settings
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Blurry fonts in Atom, Steam and GitKraken
Solution: It was neither Electron nor Elementary OS but the Nvidia driver. All I had to do was disable FXAA Antialiasing in the antialiasing settings. Now everything is sharp again: Atom, GitKraken ...
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Where to download elementary OS fonts for use in Ubuntu?
Fonts can be downloaded and installed manually:
Download fonts from the elementary/fonts repository at GitHub. Navigate into the folders of the desired fonts.
Save the *.ttf files into ~/.fonts (you ...
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In Evince, PDF text is not visible on many files
Allright, I found the fix:
It was about clearing and rebuilding the font cache with fc-cache -f -v, but run for the flatpak version of evince, so the command is:
flatpak run --command=fc-cache org....
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How do I install and use custom fonts?
I followed the instructions provided here. This is what I did to have it working.
Created the FiraSans directory in /usr/share/fonts/truetype
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FiraSans
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How to install multiple fonts at once?
Create a .font folder in home if it doesn't exists and copy all your fonts on the .font folder.
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
You can do many customizations using elementary-tweaks switchboard plugin. But the older repository is not maintained by the original author anymore. Fortunately it's been forked by some other devs ...
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Sublime text font on Elementary
The problem was that I was using googlefonts which I symlinked to my ~/.fonts directory. The link was broken when I was installing some stuff.
After cloning the repo again and creating the directory ...
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Change fonts everywhere in OS
You can install the application dconf-editor with your terminal and
there you can change these setting.
Type in your terminal...
sudo apt install dconf-editor
Then, after installation finished ...
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Change fonts everywhere in OS
You can try elementary tweaks for do that, you can install it with this common :
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/elementary-tweaks
sudo apt-get ...
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The Monaco font doesn't work
sudo sed -i '/>Monaco/{N;N;N;s/>Cousine/>Monaco/}' /etc/fonts/conf.avail/31-croscore-elementary.conf
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Font problems in elementary os
The thing that worked for me is
Fonts looks weird at Loki (and just in my user session!). How do I fix it?
But I got an error:
GLib-GIO-Message: 21:06:40.395: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.
...
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Installing fonts in Elementary
You have to install them. Check if Gnome Fonts are installed (normally is), then just click on font file and it will install.
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Elementary OS 6 font seems to be with low resolution
I had exactly same problem.
It seems that replacing Inter font with Ubuntu Regular font make things a little better. Also today there is system update in AppCentre which maybe brings some improvements....
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Large font in Pantheon greeter
edit /etc/lightdm/pantheon-greeter.conf
for example, I'm using Roboto font for the login screen
[greeter]
#activate-numlock=true
#default-wallpaper=/usr/share/backgrounds/elementaryos-...
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