fonts in ubuntu

[Art Edwards]

On 01/29/2014 01:53 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:05:45PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
>> I just upgraded my system to 13.04,
> 13.04 just lost support a couple of days ago.  You'd better upgrade to
> 13.10 soon.
>
>> but afterwards, the fonts in the gnome-terminal are proportional and
>> ugly. In the gnome-tweak-tool, the system thinks I am using the
>> ubuntu, and ubuntu mono fonts, but that's not what I'm seeing. I
>> should say that during the unattended update, my disk space in /var
>> was /very/ low, so I may be missing some packages, although apt-get -f
>> install and apt-get dist-upgrade both yield 0 packages to be
>> installed. Any insight would be appreciated.
> 1. Check gnome-terminal's preferences about the font.  If the "Use
>    System Font" checkbox is checked, then gnome-tweak-tool already told
>    you you were using Ubuntu Mono, but if it's not checked, you might be
>    getting some other font.
>
> 2. Check what font file is matched to that font: in a terminal run
>
>      $ fc-match "Ubuntu Mono"
>
>    I get
>
>      UbuntuMono-R.ttf: "Ubuntu Mono" "Regular"
>
>    which feels right.
>
> 3. Maybe run fc-cache -f -v to force rebuilding of font caches?  Maybe
>    run debsums to see if the installed font packages are not corrupt?
>
> Marius Gedminas
>
>
Thanks for the response, and for for the recommendation on 13.04. When I
ran

fc-match "Ubuntu-Mono"

I got

Ubuntu-M.ttf: "Ubuntu" "Medium"

which is a little different.

I also rebuilt the font-caches, but it seems that I'm getting the same
font.

Art Edwards
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