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Operating Systems Linux How do we change the default font on Linux system? Post 303042396 by Neo on Monday 23rd of December 2019 12:41:01 PM
Old 12-23-2019
lsb_release has little to do with fonts, as you know.

So, if "you messed your default fonts up", I don't think it was because you decided to installing lsb_release.

On the other hand, using apt, I have never installed with apt using a wildcard (*) like you show in your post .

Was that a typo in your reply?

Anyway, you are running CentOS.

So, for CentOS, I think you can change the default system font by adding the <prefer> directive to your fonts.conf file.

You might want to investigate that. I saw on the net where many people change their default system fonts on CentOS using the <prefer> or <default> directive:

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Alias elements provide a shorthand notation for the set of common match operations needed to substitute one font family for another. They contain a <family> element followed by optional <prefer>, <accept> and <default> elements. Fonts matching the <family> element are edited to prepend the list of <prefer>ed families before the matching <family>, append the <accept>able families after the matching <family> and append the <default> families to the end of the family list.
Frankly, I don't change system fonts on my servers; and when I login remotely (everyday), I change the console fonts using the terminal program (I use Roboto and Anonymous Pro fonts) not with the system fonts.

Anyway, I not really very helpful on this, so I think you can easily Google around about how to change the default system font in CentOS and make good progress.

In closing, I would like to caution you about saying "changing fonts on Linux system" (as in the title of this discussion you posted).

Linux, defines only the kernel. The operating environment is defined by the distribution (in your case CentOS). Linux is the kernel, everything else falls under the actual distribution.

Your issue changing system fonts is a CentOS issue, not a Linux issue, per se. Linux is the kernel, not the "distribution".

Hope this helps.
 

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FONTYPYTHON(1)															    FONTYPYTHON(1)

NAME
fontypython - Find, view and manage font files of all kinds. SYNOPSIS
fontypython [OPTIONS]... [VIEW]... [TARGET]... DESCRIPTION
fontypython is a GUI utility written in Python and WxPython that will help you do font stuff on GNU/Linux system. You can quickly view and filter arbitrary* TTF, TTC, OTF or Type1 font files and then gather them together into 'Pogs' which can be installed or removed as needed. In this way you control which fonts are installed on a per-project basis. If you have gucharmap or kfontview installed, (there is an option in Settings to choose which one) you can view any font's character maps etc. *Arbitrary means you can see and/or use any fonts in a local directory (or a mount). They do not need to be installed on your system. OPTIONS
VIEW A place where fonts are. A Pog or a folder someplace. TARGET A "Pog". A place to keep those fonts (just references to them). OPTIONS Below are the various command-line options. You don't need to use them, but they are handy. The program will run as a GUI if you only invoke 'fontypython'. -e, --examples Show some %$@#$ examples! -l, --list List the names of all the Pogs. -i Pog, --install=Pog Install the fonts in this Pog to your fonts folder. -u Pog, --uninstall=Pog Uninstall the fonts in this Pog. -p Pog, --purge=Pog Purge the Pog of font files that are no longer really there. -s num, --size=num Set a new default point size. -n num, --number=num Set a new default for how many fonts to view at one go. Don't overdo this. -c folder --check=folder Check for bad fonts that crash the program. It will recurse through sub-folders. This will build a file: ~/.fontypython/segfonts After using this tool you should be able to browse safely. (The reason it's not done by default is that it's very slow.) NOTE: The fonts that crash the program are probably still perfectly good and can be used in other apps. -a folder Pog, --all=folder Pog Puts all fonts in this folder into the Pog. If the Pog already exists, it will add only *new* fonts, this means fonts are not repeated in that Pog. -A folder Pog, --all-recurse=folder Pog Puts all fonts in this folder and *all* sub-folders into the Pog. Rest same as -a. -z Pog, --zip=Pog All the fonts inside Pog will be zipped and the zipfile will be named after the Pog. The file will be placed in the current direc- tory. --version Show program's version number and exit. -h, --help Show help message and exit. SEE ALSO
Homepage: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython> AUTHOR
fontypython was written by Donn.C.Ingle <donn.ingle@gmail.com>. This manual page was updated by Donn Ingle in October 2009. It was originally written by Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 2009-09-28 FONTYPYTHON(1)
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