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A font is an entire set of glyphs that make up a typeface. Installing a font allows the user to use that font in order to change the appearance of text on an output device such as a screen or printer.

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I really like the default font used by xterm. By running xterm -report-fonts, I glean that this font is -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 written in the old XLFD ...
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I'm moving from bash to fish, and I've installed ilancosman/tide prompt. However, Some characters are not displayed correctly (cf. right part): What I've done : Install MesloLGS fonts by putting *....
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Environment: Manjaro, KDE. Font is IBM Plex Sans I'm trying to identify an issue with font rendering with my system, hopefully you can see from the first screenshot below the lowercase characters: n ...
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Operating system: OpenSUSE 15.6, upgraded from 15.5 I am creating a custom grub theme in which I want to use a font with a larger size than the default (I'm on a 3840x2160 screen). I followed the ...
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For years I've used this to run Chrome/Chromium: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 chrome This no longer works in Chrome 136.0.7103.59 (Official Build) (64-bit). Does anyone know ...
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I've installed a Japanese font (this one, if it makes any difference) that I wanted to use to practice reading cursive writing - i.e. it's deliberately very hard to read. However, it now appears to be ...
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I found DimSum years ago (I installed it on Windows), it helped me to translate English to Chinese, but unfortunately the project is abandoned, the site is still there, but many links are broken. My ...
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I have the following fontconfig configuration, but the font weights aren't changing as expected. I discovered that changing target="font" to target="pattern" makes it work. <...
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