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Operating Systems Linux How do we change the default font on Linux system? Post 303042298 by mohtashims on Friday 20th of December 2019 02:40:02 PM
Old 12-20-2019
How do we change the default font on Linux system?
I have two hosts i.e host1 & host2.

host1 has the desired font details of which are below:

Code:
uname -a
Linux host1 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 19:03:37 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ fc-match
StRydeRegular.ttf: "St Ryde" "Regular"

I need the same default font on host2 however I'm not sure what and where changes need to be done.

Below are the details of host2

Code:
# uname -a
Linux host2 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 14:54:57 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@vultr /]# fc-match
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Can you please suggest any quick and easy fix to default the font on host2 to be StRydeRegular.ttf: "St Ryde" "Regular ?

As a solution i tried to copy /etc/fonts/fonts.conf from host1 to host2 and reload but it gives syntax error like below:
Code:
# sudo fc-cache -fv

[root@vultr /]# fc-match
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 71: unknown element "blank"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 141: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

 

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fcconfigappfontadddir

FcConfigAppFontAddDir(3)												  FcConfigAppFontAddDir(3)

NAME

       FcConfigAppFontAddDir - Add fonts from directory to font database

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -lfontconfig [ library... ]

       #include <fontconfig.h>

       FcBool FcConfigAppFontAddDir (FcConfig *config, const FcChar8 *dir);

DESCRIPTION

       Scans  the specified directory for fonts, adding each one found to the application-specific set of fonts. Returns FcFalse if the fonts can-
       not be added (due to allocation failure). Otherwise returns FcTrue.

VERSION

       Fontconfig version 2.5.0

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWfontconfig		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |See XInitThreads(3X11)	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

								 13 November 2007					  FcConfigAppFontAddDir(3)
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