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Operating Systems Linux How do we change the default font on Linux system? Post 303042408 by Neo on Monday 23rd of December 2019 11:25:32 PM
Old 12-24-2019
So in summary, if you don't mind: you installed a font which you did not know the font family (or the basics of font management).

Because you installed a font with knowing the font family, you did not have the information required to update your fonts.conf file to specify the font family for the new default in the configuration file. In addition, you had a lot of initial errors in your configuration because you copies from another server.

In my view, you should hone your trouble shooting and system admin skills. When you are installing or configuration something, you should read the error and status messages very carefully (as I did in your posts) and work to fix those errors before asking "why something does not work or not". Relevant or not to the immediate task at hand, as a sys admin you should understand fix these errors. The developers of software take a lot of time to create code which traps errors and outputs status messages to help users. Those messages are important and critical for system admin. If you have errors, fix them. Everything is relevant. Details matter. If you ever write code, getting the code to work is "one thing". Trapping all the possible errors and outputting error and status messages for "other users" can take more time than the original code. These messages are your friend and are free.

In my view, you have 1000 or so posts here at unix.com. This should have been easy for you to solve on your own. You did not really need my help. You could have copied the fonts over, fixed the obvious errors and then googled on how to change the default system font for CentOS. You would have seen that you can change the default, as I did, by editing font.conf.

Anyway, glad you solved it and glad to help you think though this. Hopefully, this discussion will help others who have similar issues in the future.

Live long and prosper.
 

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atsutil

atsutil(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						atsutil(8)

NAME

     atsutil -- font registration system utility

SYNOPSIS

     atsutil autoactivation [-DdeaRh] [path]
     atsutil databases [-remove | -removeUser]
     atsutil fontprotection [-on | -off] [-get] [-files] [-fonts]
     atsutil server [-ping | -shutdown]
     atsutil help

DESCRIPTION

     atsutil tool controls some aspects of the font registration system.  It may be used to modify font auto activation settings, font protection
     settings, remove font registration databases and caches, or restart the font registration daemon.

     autoactivation modifies font auto activation settings globally or for a specific application.

     databases will remove fontd System or User databases along with any cache files. Removing databases may cause the loss of font registration
     state: fonts activated outside the standard font directories, font faces disabled, and font libraries. New databases will be regenerated from
     fonts installed the standard font directories after the user logs out, restarts, or the fontd server is restarted.

     fontprotection overrides System font protection settings.

     server queries the status of fontd or shutdowns the fontd.  Shutting down the fontd will spawn a new fontd.  Shutting down the server is NOT
     recommended and will likely lead to misrendered text or application crashes.

OPTIONS

     autoactivation [-DdeaRh] [path]
     -D set font auto activation setting to default.
     -d is specified, then set font auto activation setting to disabled.
     -e is specified, then set font auto activation setting to enabled.
     -a is specified, then set font auto activation setting to ask.
     -R is specified, then reset font auto activation setting to default.
     -h is specified, then display help information.
     -path with options is specified, then set font auto activation setting locally for application.  Otherwise, setting is global in scope.

     Note, path without options will return current font auto activation setting for application.

     databases [-remove | -removeUser]
     -remove remove fontd databases for active user and system (used when no one is logged in and some background processes).
     -removeUser remove fontd databases for the active user only.

     fontprotection [-on | -off] [-get] [-files] [-fonts]
     -on enable System font protection.
     -off disable System font protection.
     -get return System font protection setting.
     -files prints list of protected font files.
     -fonts prints list of protected font faces (Postscript names).

     server [-ping | -shutdown]
     -ping query running fontd.
     -shutdown shutdown fontd and spawn a new fontd. NOTE: this action is not recommended. See above.

SEE ALSO

     fontd(8)

HISTORY

     atsutil first appeared in MacOS X 10.5.

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