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Operating Systems Linux How do we change the default font on Linux system? Post 303042334 by mohtashims on Saturday 21st of December 2019 11:42:20 PM
Old 12-22-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Your error message gave you all the clues you need, right?

Code:
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

You should fix those errors first, don't you think?
Line 71 was loading the conf.d directory. Thus i copied over the entire /etc/fonts/conf.d directory from host1 to host2 and the error was gone.

I then got error with a tag / element called as blank. See output below.

Code:
[root@vultr fonts]# fc-match
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 86: unknown element "blank"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

I then commented out the "blank" tag from fonts.conf and reloaded the font configuration as below.

Code:
[root@vultr fonts]# sudo fc-cache -fv
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 9 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/lyx: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF: skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/root/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/root/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/lyx: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/root/.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/usr/bin/fc-cache-64: succeeded

Now the errors are gone but it is still defaulting to a different font than the one i needed. Note: apart from the blank tag / element the fonts.conf and the /etc/fonts/conf.d is the same on host1 and host2.

Code:
[root@vultr fonts]# fc-match
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

when I am expecting to get this results of host1 i.e:

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

Kindly suggest.
 

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