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Roddie
Asked: 2010-12-28 02:33:32 +0800 CST

Why won't Opera let me use the Ubuntu font?

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This is driving me crazy. I'm using monochrome rendering for fonts and this causes a few problems in my browser so I wanted to make Ubuntu the standard sans-serif font. I changed it in the preferences and it initially works okay but after a while it reverts to the default. If I go into the font section in the menu, it still lists Ubuntu and if I click OK the pages will correct themselves. Does anyone know I can stop this behaviour?

I'm using Opera 11 on Ubuntu 10.10

fonts ubuntu-font-family opera

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is not an Ubuntu issue but rather an Opera bug and apparently it's been present since version 10.60 of the browser. It has been raised as such with the Opera team (the ID is DSK-324216) but as there has been no movement in nearly a year since reporting it, I'm not too hopeful of it ever being fixed.

    I discovered a workaround which involves creating a .css file in ~/.opera/styles/user and populating it with:

    pre, code {
    font-family: "Ubuntu", sans-serif;
}

    You can then select this file in Preferences > Advanced > Content > Style Options... > My style sheet.

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  2. Well, it seems than even in v12.00 Next, this bug is not fixed in Opera. The only thing we can do is: wait...

    For this reasons, I love Launchpad.net and open source development. It’s always nice to follow progress of your bugs.

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