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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:

Quote:
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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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

fc-match

FC-MATCH(1)															       FC-MATCH(1)

NAME

       fc-match - match available fonts

SYNOPSIS

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

       fc-match [ -svV? ] [ --sort ] [ --verbose ] [ --version ] [ --help ] [ font-pattern ]

DESCRIPTION

       fc-match  matches  font-pattern	(empty pattern by default) using the normal fontconfig matching rules to find the best font available.	If
       --sort is given, the sorted list of best matching fonts is displayed.  With --verbose, the whole font pattern for each  match  is  printed,
       otherwise only the file, family and style are printed..

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

       -v --verbose
	      Print whole font pattern for each match.

       -? --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -V --version
	      Show version of the program and exit.

       -s --sort
	      Displays sorted list of best matching fonts.

       font-pattern
	      Displays fonts matching font-pattern (uses empty pattern by default).

SEE ALSO

       fc-list(1).

       The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was updated by Patrick Lam <plam@csail.mit.edu>.

ATTRIBUTES

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

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

								 04 November 2007						       FC-MATCH(1)
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