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Operating Systems Linux How do we change the default font on Linux system? Post 303042340 by mohtashims on Sunday 22nd of December 2019 12:28:10 AM
Old 12-22-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
If I were you, the next step I would take is to search for:

Code:
StRydeRegular.ttf

(or something similar)

In the directories indicated in your config output:

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

My first guess, at this point, is that you have not installed the desired font family in one of the directories required or included in your config file.

As a side note:

More often-than-not, just coping and pasting files and directories from one platform to another, without understanding how they actually work and all the required files and directories, results in the problems you are seeing.
I definitely have the desired font installed as seen below:

Code:
[root@vultr fonts]# fc-list | grep StRydeRegular.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/lyx/StRydeRegular.ttf: St Ryde,St Ryde Regular:style=Regular
[root@vultr fonts]# ls -ltr /usr/share/fonts/lyx/StRydeRegular.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107988 Dec 22  2018 /usr/share/fonts/lyx/StRydeRegular.ttf

Here is the ouput of fonts loaded on host1 where it is good:

Code:
sudo fc-cache -fv
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 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: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 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
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/root/.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

Here is the output from host2 where i face the issue.
Code:
 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

I will anyways continue to troubleshoot in other directories.
Last edited by mohtashims; 12-22-2019 at 01:33 AM..
 

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