noto-fonts is fucking up my terminal

nilleh · 2022-05-12 18:19:32

Alright. So.

I've been using Sway for quite a while now, but today I decided to switch to KDE Plasma. So I ran yay -S plasma, and all was good.
Until I opened my terminal.
Inside the terminal, all the fonts looked like absolute piss.
It was a monospace-proportional problem, where the terminal was taking a proportional font(like the aforementioned Google Noto fonts) and spacing it as if it was a monospace one, which made all the letters scrunched up and look like shit.
I've had this problem before, but I was able to solve it by uninstalling the noto-fonts package.
However, when I try to remove it just like before, it took me on a wild goose chase through the thick undergrowth of all the Plasma packages only to find out that I pretty much had to delete Plasma to be able to delete noto-fonts.
I cannot for the fucking life of me find anything on it to help me, so if this is a repost, could you please redirect me to the original post.

Thank you kindly.
if you need anymore information, let me know.

seth · 2022-05-12 18:34:54

Until I opened my terminal.

What terminal and what font is it configured to use?

fc-match monospace

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts

Morn · 2022-05-12 19:06:24

nilleh wrote:

However, when I try to remove it just like before, it took me on a wild goose chase through the thick undergrowth of all the Plasma packages only to find out that I pretty much had to delete Plasma to be able to delete noto-fonts.

You could simply use

pacman -Rdd noto-fonts

in that case.

Trilby · 2022-05-12 19:18:47

I didn't like the genre of music that came on the radio when I started up the new car I just brought home from the dealership. So I went on a wild goose chase looking under the hood of the car until I just gave up and brought the car back. Now I just bike everywhere. If only I could select what type of music played on the radio rather than being stuck with whatever channel it was on when it came off the car assembly line.

seth · 2022-05-12 19:31:43

This song?

Trilby · 2022-05-12 20:24:09

Nope, this one. But not to derail completely, nilleh, the point is you chose the font you want to use in your terminal emulator. If you haven't selected one, it may pick one you don't like - don't uninstall half the system, just set the font you want.

nilleh · 2022-05-13 07:19:22

seth wrote:

Until I opened my terminal.
What terminal and what font is it configured to use?
fc-match monospace
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts

I was trying it on Alacritty, and when I did the

fc-match monospace

in the terminal, it printed

NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

.

nilleh · 2022-05-13 07:25:21

Trilby wrote:

I didn't like the genre of music that came on the radio when I started up the new car I just brought home from the dealership. So I went on a wild goose chase looking under the hood of the car until I just gave up and brought the car back. Now I just bike everywhere. If only I could select what type of music played on the radio rather than being stuck with whatever channel it was on when it came off the car assembly line.

Funny, but for me it's not that I didn't like the font, it's just it's literally ineligible.

V1del · 2022-05-13 07:26:54

Which is not a monospace font. Check your general font configuration (look at the files mentioned there): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … figuration

Last edited by V1del (2022-05-13 07:27:58)

seth · 2022-05-13 07:28:42

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Alacritty#Font
Configure a better font, eg. SourceCode Pro - however "monospace" should absolutely not resolve a proportional font, so see the previous link as well and also check

fc-match -s monospace

Edit: curses.

Last edited by seth (2022-05-13 07:29:18)

Trilby · 2022-05-13 12:40:35

nilleh wrote:

Funny, but for me it's not that I didn't like the font, it's just it's literally ineligible.

Which is exactly the same in the end. Configure your terminal. If you really want to metaphor to fit better, then it's like getting static on the radio and assuming the car needs to be returned: no, a radio station just needs to be selected as the lack of a radio station would likely just get "literally ineligible" static.

As noted above, fontconfig providing "Noto Sans" as a default monospace is a more general problem that you should also address, but there is absolutely no reason to depend on the default font for your terminal as the default can and will change in the future and you may be taken by surprise by the change. If you don't configure your terminal you are at the whims of many variables outside your control. But configuring a font in your terminal is as easy as changing the channel on a radio - and it's expected that users will select a font for there terminal not just uninstall all but the preferred font.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-05-13 12:53:23)

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