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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

12-24-2019

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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.

Neo

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mkcfm

MKCFM(1)						      General Commands Manual							  MKCFM(1)

NAME

       mkcfm - create summaries of font metric files in CID font directories

SYNOPSIS

       mkcfm [CID-font-directory-name]

DESCRIPTION

       There  is  usually only one CID font directory on the X font path. It is usually called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID. If you do not specify
       an argument, mkcfm will try to go through the subdirectories of that directory, and create one summary of font metric files for	each  CID-
       Font (character descriptions) file and each CMap (Character Maps) file it finds. The summaries of font metric files are put in the existing
       CFM subdirectory. The CFM subdirectories are created when CID-keyed fonts are installed.

       If you specify a CID font directory as an argument, mkcfm will try to go through the subdirectories of that directory, and create one  sum-
       mary  of  font metric files for each CIDFont file and each CMap file it finds.  mkcfm will calculate the summaries of the font metric files
       stored in AFM subdirectories of the CID font directory.

       Those summaries are needed by the rasterizer of CID-keyed fonts to speed up the response to X font calls. If those files do not exist,  CID
       rasterizer  will  have  to go through usually large font metric files, and calculate the summaries itself each time the font is called. You
       will notice a substantial wait on a call to a large CID-keyed font.

FILES

       .afm files     Each CID-keyed font file is supposed to have a font metric file (.afm file). mkcfm creates summary  files  (.cfm	files)	of
		      those  font metric files. mkcfm should be run whenever a change is made to the files stored in the subdirectories of the CID
		      font directory. For example, it should be run when new CID fonts are installed.

       .cfm files     Summaries of font metric (.afm) files created by mkcfm.

SEE ALSO

       The rasterizer for CID-keyed fonts in the directory xc/lib/font/Type1.

CID Fonts Version 1.0						    Release 1.0 							  MKCFM(1)

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