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Leonardo Petrucci
Asked: 2018-10-26 10:05:04 +0800 CST

Weird Monospace font after 18.10 Update

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I updated to Ubuntu 18.10 earlier today. The installation worked without any problems. So far everything seems to be working as expected.

For some reason however, after opening both Brackets and Atom, I noticed that a lot of their fonts have been inexplicably changed to a monospaced font that is quite hard to read.

  • I tried changing my system fonts with Gnome Tweaks.
  • I tried switching back to the default Ubuntu theme.
  • I tried uninstalling and reinstalling
  • I tried changing the font settings from the programs themselves (they had no option to do so)

If I install Atom from the .deb package on their website the fonts do go back to normal, but of course that way I won't get the commodity of automatic updates.

Brackets on the other hand does not install from the website-provided deb package, so I'm unsure on what to do there.

Here's how the programs look: enter image description here enter image description here

fonts atom 18.10 adobe-brackets

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Atom is not in the official repositories, so I assume you're installing it from a PPA. As the unofficial Atom PPA does not provide a version for Cosmic (18.10), you're probably installing the Bionic (18.04) package, so it's most likely a compatibility issue. I compared the dependencies between the PPA package and the downloadable DEB (dpkg -I filename.deb), and the former has GTK2 UI dependencies which are being dropped in favor of GTK3.

    For now it's best you use the downloadable version, until (hopefully) that or another PPA starts providing a proper Cosmic version. Don't forget to check your software sources so that they're requesting a Cosmic version from the PPA instead of Bionic.

    Brackets has similar GTK2 and other aged dependencies, so it may be very hard if not impossible to get it working properly on Ubuntu 18.10 until they modernize their code.

    PPA (atom_1.26.1-1~webupd8~0_amd64.deb):  
Depends: git, gconf2, gconf-service, libgtk2.0-0, libudev0 | libudev1, 
         libgcrypt11 | libgcrypt20, libnotify4, libxtst6, libnss3, python, 
         gvfs-bin, xdg-utils, libdbus-1-3, libcap2, libxkbfile1, libx11-6, 
         libasound2, libsecret-1-0, gir1.2-secret-1

DEB (atom-amd64.deb):  
Depends: git, gconf2, gconf-service, libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10), libudev0 | libudev1, 
         libgcrypt11 | libgcrypt20, libnotify4, libxtst6, libnss3 (>= 2:3.22), 
         python, gvfs-bin, xdg-utils, libcap2, libx11-xcb1, libxss1, 
         libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libxkbfile1
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