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Asked: 2015-03-07 06:14:06 +0800 CST

Why Gnome Terminal doesn't display a specific font as available

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Commands I've tried:

  • sudo updatedb
  • sudo fc-cache -fv
  • sudo reboot

Dispite this I was unable to make Monofur font to display as available for the Gnome Terminal in a machine with Ubuntu 14.10 recently installed. It's available in all other apps.

I have other machine with 14.04 where this went fine.

I'm not sure whether this is related with a problem when I installed the font for the first time and the font manager got stuck when installing that I had to reboot. Afterwards I've removed the font from the system and reinstalled it without problems.

It's in ~/.local/share/fonts.

fc-list lists this font. File permissions are OK.

UPDATE

Upgraded to last Ubuntu, issue vanished.

14.10

4 Answers

  1. Having installed the font, it didn't show right away for me either. Here's the steps I took to make it show up:

    1) Move the font to /usr/share/fonts/truetype` directory:

    Create a directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Monofur/ and move the font files (in my case, I only moved Monofur for Powerline.ttf) either with file manager or with mv command. Note, you will need sudo priviliges for all that

    2) Delete everything in ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/

    The profile preferences are all stored in ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/ directory. I basically did sudo rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/

    3) Close and reopen gnome-terminal

    Self- explanatory.

    Suggestions:

    For good measure, try doing updatedb after deleting everything or after reopening gnome-terminal; try rebooting if it still doesn't work

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  2. Whatever I did I couldn't get my fonts to show up. I got at a point where I tried switching random options, and when I switched "Allow bold text" off and back on all the fonts showed up. Don't ask me why but it worked for me.

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  3. First see if the font is available in system by using fc-list | grep font-name.

    Now copy the font name correctly from the result of above command e.g.

    /usr/share/fonts/TTF/MonofurNerd/monofur Nerd Font Complete.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Book.

    For this font name is Monofur Nerd Font which comes after .ttf:.

    Now open dconf-editor GUI version. Now navigate to the font setting of gnome-terminal. /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:some-id/

    Here :some-id is a long set of characters which refer to your profiles in gnome-terminal.

    Then find the font setting, and change the font name by the one you want.

    Apply the settings and you are done.

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  4. I solved it using https://superuser.com/questions/1335155/patched-fonts-not-showing-up-on-gnome-terminal link.

    On Amazon Linux 2, I did the following,

    1. Installed gnome-tweaks

      sudo yum install gnome-tweaks

    2. Ran gnome-tweaks

    3. Fonts (sidebar) -> Monospace (select whatever font is needed). This selects the default font.

    4. Close gnome-tweaks

    5. Open gnome-terminal

    6. Edit -> preferences -> Profiles (sidebar) -> Text -> Custom font (uncheck it i.e. use the default system wide font)

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