fonts in ubuntu

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:32:51AM -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
> 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.

That's because you ran a different command.  Look closely:

  fc-match "Ubuntu Mono"
  fc-match "Ubuntu-Mono"

Marius Gedminas
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