Home / ubuntu / Questions / 860407
Accepted
Aaron Franke
Asked: 2016-12-14 16:51:36 +0800 CST

Where are the XFCE4 appearance/font settings stored in Xubuntu 16.04?

  • 772

Running Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS 64-bit.

Hello, I was wondering if I could just make a copy of my Appearance (specifically, font) settings because I want to be able to place the file into a LiveCD and make these settings the default on a new installation. If not that, at least I could bulk-copy it to the installations in question.Appearance settings screenshotThank you in advance.

xubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Found it! It's in ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml. Most of the settings will be set to "empty" if they haven't been changed, otherwise they'll be set to the value. For example, the DPI is set with <property name="DPI" type="int" value="96"/> under Xft, while the font is set to a string with <property name="FontName" type="string" value="Noto Sans 11"/> under Gtk.

    • 4

  2. The default directory in which fonts can be kept is:

    /usr/share/fonts
/usr/local/share/fonts

    The easiest place for people to put their fonts is /home/user/.fonts. If you have not already done so, create this folder: 

    mkdir ~/.fonts

    Backup those directory to new machine, then update your font cache:

     sudo fc-cache -fv
    • 3