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Jubijub

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2018-04-04

Posts: 34

Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

Hello,

I am trying to use Nerd fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts which are fonts patched with Glyphs, with the intention to use them in Zsh / Oh-my-szh / Powerline9K.

Note : this is known to work, I routinely use this under Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome-Terminal, as well as under Windows with ConEmu

How I have installed the fonts :
- Go to Git hub
- Download the font using the Download button
- move the font to ~/.local/share/fonts
- run fc-cache -vf
- mkfontscale
- mkfontdir
- clapped my hand and made 3 turns on my chair

Actual result :
- in Gnome terminal, I cannot see the fonts
- I can see them in Firefox for instance (I can set my default font as Fura Code for instance).
- I can also see them in Terminator, and in Konsole (although I have to deactivate the filter on monospace font, which is weird because the fonts I want to install are monospace)

Expected result :
- I would like to be able to chose them in Gnome-terminal

Note : I suspect Ubuntu GNOME-terminal has extra patches because the box to deactive monospace fonts filter exists there...

HalosGhost

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From: Twin Cities, MN

Registered: 2012-06-22

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Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

Have you tried using the AUR package instead?

All the best,

-HG

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Jubijub

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2018-04-04

Posts: 34

Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

I did try

However :
- only a subset of the fonts have been packaged
- some of those packages are outdated
- there seem to be one that does a full install, but it weights 2Gb because it downloads all fonts, in all variantsm which I don really need.

Also, I looked at what the AUR package do, and they do exactly the same steps.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,233

Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

fc-list | grep -i nerd

Edit, scratch that - just saw that the fonts work. They're apparently just not flagged monospace and gnome-terminal filters them.
Did you try to configure the font directly using dconf?

Last edited by seth (2018-04-04 21:58:02)

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ubone

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Registered: 2014-08-31

Posts: 47

Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

tell fontconfig to prefer it for monospace

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
  <!-- ## monospace ## -->
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>nerd</family>
      <family>xos4 terminus</family>
      <family>liberation mono</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

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Jubijub

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2018-04-04

Posts: 34

Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

None of this worked...

For some reasons, only BitStreamVera and SauceCode work as is...
The font work in non-GTK console widget based terminals (like Konsole under KDE)

clouduan

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Registered: 2018-08-10

Posts: 1

Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

I run into this problem just yesterday when I install vim plugin devicons. After installing nerd fonts in my Ubuntu 18, I found that these nerd fonts were not listed in the gnome terminal.
I did many searches in google, and finally found this method worked for me. Here is the link Link
Steps:

1. Install GNOME Tweaks
2. Set the system monospace font to your nerd font
3. In the Terminal's Font Preference, I leave the Custom Font option unchecked, .i.e use system font.

draptik

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Registered: 2012-07-13

Posts: 10

Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

@clouduan thanks for the pointer to the correct solution!

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Nerd fonts unusable in Gnome-Terminal

Closing this old topic.