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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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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

xmfontlistentryload

XmFontListEntryLoad(3X) 												   XmFontListEntryLoad(3X)

NAME

       XmFontListEntryLoad - A font list function that loads a font or creates a font set and creates an accompanying font list entry

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Xm.h>

       XmFontListEntry XmFontListEntryLoad (display, font_name, type, tag)
	       Display *display;
	       char *font_name;
	       XmFontType type;
	       char *tag;

DESCRIPTION

       XmFontListEntryLoad  loads  a font or creates a font set based on the value of the type argument.  It creates and returns a font list entry
       that contains the font or font set and the specified tag.

       If the value of type is XmFONT_IS_FONT, the function uses the XtCvtStringToFontStruct routine to convert the value of font_name to  a  font
       struct. If the value of type is XmFONT_IS_FONTSET, the function uses the XtCvtStringToFontSet converter to create a font set in the current
       locale. XmFontListEntryLoad creates a font list entry that contains the font or font set derived from the converter. For  more  information
       about  XtCvtStringToFontStruct  and  XtCvtStringToFontSet, see X Toolkit Intrinsics--C Language Interface.  Specifies the display where the
       font list will be used.	Specifies an X Logical Font Description (XLFD) string, which is interpreted either as a font name  or  as  a  base
       font  name list. A base font name list is a comma-separated and NULL-terminated string.	Specifies whether the font_name argument refers to
       a font name or to a base font name list. Valid values are XmFONT_IS_FONT and XmFONT_IS_FONTSET.	Specifies the tag of the font  list  entry
       to be created. The tag may be specified as XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG. XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG is used to identify the default font list element
       in a font list when specified as part of a resource.

RETURN VALUE

       If the specified font is not found, or the specified font set can not be created, returns NULL; otherwise, returns a font list entry.

SEE ALSO

       XmFontList(3X), XmFontListAppendEntry(3X), XmFontListEntryCreate(3X),  XmFontListEntryFree(3X),	XmFontListEntryGetFont(3X),  XmFontListEn-
       tryGetTag(3X), XmFontListRemoveEntry(3X)

															   XmFontListEntryLoad(3X)
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