[feisty] Monospace font is no longer Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu Sans Mono)?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:58:35AM -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> I've noticed lately that the virtual Monospace font (as provited by
> fontconfig, I guess) is returning something looking like Courier rather
> than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono or DejaVu Sans Mono. I can't figure out
> how to change this back so I get the nice looking sans mono fonts. 
> 
> BTW, I'd rather fix this in fontconfig (or pango, maybe?) than in
> gnome-font-properties.

I've heard that there's a font that is actually called 'Monospace' and
that, if you install it, takes precedence over the usual aliases.

In a terminal window you can type

  $ fc-match monospace

to see which font you get, and dpkg -S filename.ttf to see which package
contains it.

Marius Gedminas
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