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Why does firefox not use Consolas font while fc-match consolas shows it?

Visiting a pages that use the Consolas monospace font (e.g. [1], minimal example at [3]) instead renders Nimbus Mono. I installed the Microsoft fonts according to the arch wiki[1] using the ttf-ms-...
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Stopping ligatures in konsole

After upgrading to Fedora 29 konsole has started to use ligatures for my monowidth fonts (currently Inconsolata), which is beyond terrible for example when it decides to combine "fi". I have futzed ...
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switch off anti aliasing in fedora 22

I updated to fedora 22 last days and under most desktops ( kde/gnome/gnome3 ) all terminals have a very very ugly font setting. It is nearly impossible to use some text base editors in this terminals ...
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Setting custom (Powerline) fonts in the default OSX Terminal app

I was able to set a custom font in Iterm 2 by setting the Non-ASCII option in Iterm's setting. I was not able to find a similar option in the default Mac OS Terminal. How can I do this for Mac OS ...
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how get a bit "bolder" or "blurry" and more weight font on arch linux?

this could be a weird question because many people seems to ask for the opposite question: How get more defined fonts on linux?.. unfortunately I came from OS and notice than the linux font looks so ...
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How to match the font "Helvetica" to "Adobe Helvetica"

I'am using OpenSuse 12.2 and installed various font-packages. Fontconfig is triggered by SuSEConfig. So far, the installation seems ok. But I have the following problem: I have to use the font "...
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What happened to my X fonts? The newer OS has a "weaker" font weight for "Monospace 10"

I'm upgrading from CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux 9 (Rocky, Alma, RHEL, etc) and the terminal fonts are notably different. (I'm using Mate for the WM, but I don't think it matters for fonts, or does it?). I ...
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Can an installer be created to auto install a font on a Mac?

I created a font which works equally well on Windows and Mac. For Windows, I created an installer package; when the user downloads the package and clicks on the .exe file it automatically installs ...
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Can I have different DPI-settings for fonts on different monitors?

I replaced one of my monitors by one with much higher resolution. Its physical dimensions are bigger too, but not as much bigger as the resolution -- so each pixel became quite a bit smaller. To ...
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pdf2htmlEX converts text but not visible (program can't find font file on linux?)

I'm using pdf2htmlEX to convert a pdf to html, and the output displays correctly when it's generated locally on a mac, but not when it's generated in production on amazon linux. Multiple pages have ...
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.cache/fontfonfig directory fills infinitely courtesy mate-settings-daemon

Noob here. I'm running Manjaro Linux with MATE as Desktop Environment. For some weird reason, mate-settings-daemon fills up my .cache/fontconfig directory infinitely. I use fc-cache to generate font ...
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Why does convert fill my fontconfig directory?

I want to have the time displayed a bunch of times in my linux background. Here's a partial screenshot: I use this script to make that happen: #!/usr/bin/bash while true do convert -size ...
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FFmpeg drawtext limit on max number of open font files

Using FFmpeg, I am trying to create a video from images on which I annotate/write text using drawtext (filter_complex is used). If the number of drawtext filters exceeds 500, I get an error: ...
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fc-match gives the same font regardless of query

Related: Why are my monospace fonts behaving erratically? No matter what input I give fc-match, it always returns the same thing. I think this is the root cause of the related Q above. How would I ...
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Centos 6 Eclipse font rendering at 8pt

I am running Centos 6.4 and Eclipse Juno and I like coding at 8pt size. I keep seeing a few letters with no spaces in between them. I have tried DejaVu Sans Mono Book, Droid Sans Mono etc. The font in ...
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Font list not refreshing in apps in debian

I copied a bunch of .ttf and otf fonts into ~/.fonts, made sure permissions where set to my user/group and ran fc-cache ~/.fonts. Opened up GIMP and Geany but the fonts aren't available. Any idea ...
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How to debug “Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories” as the console output of font-manager?

Starting font-manager as a regular user from a console (regardless of the presence or the contents of /usr/local/share/fonts) prints four messages Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories on ...
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How to make Debian bookworm prefer a newer font version whenever at least two versions of the same font are available?

For the sake of an example, consider two fonts files of the same font: $ fc-scan /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/cour.ttf --format='%{family} %{fontversion}\n' Courier New 184812 $ egrep -ao &...
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evince + apparmor + local fonts = some font thing failed

I made my Debian GNU/Linux 12 “bookworm” aware of locally installed fonts in a non-root partition: $ la -la /usr/local/share/fonts/ … lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 40 8. Feb 22:16 Folder1 -&...
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Font: howto configure pixel font correctly on linux?

I followed this guide and its subpixel rendering topic: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Pixel_alignment But still can't achieve the same appearance result to pixel font ...
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Being both nonprivileged and root inside Docker container

I want to use pandoc inside docker. The image looks like this: FROM debian:buster-slim RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y pandoc texlive WORKDIR /home This is build.sh inside the ...
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FFmpeg on Android add subtitles too slowly

Recently I use FFmpeg 4.0 on Android. And I use FFmpeg to add subtitles. But it's very slow. After some check, I find where the problem is. As you know, FFmpeg should enable-libass so that you can ...
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Linux: configure font to be treated as monospace

I'm trying to use the OCR-A font on Ubuntu. But it's not configured properly to be recgnized as monospace font. I understand that I need to have a local fonts.conf file or somethign like that. But ...
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How do I make Emacs honor ~/.fonts.conf?

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and I've installed the emacs-snapshot package via apt-get. When I run this Emacs, it honors my ~/.fonts.conf file. (I can tell because the fonts change if I remove the file.) ...
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