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owm

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Registered: 2019-03-13

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[SOLVED] Fontconfig alias: everything is appearing in Open Sans

I am trying to write a fontconfig that uses proper fonts for CJK and emoji (i.e. use Open Sans > DejaVu Sans > Noto Sans for sans-serif, DejaVu Serif > Noto Serif > HanaMinA for serif, etc.). I came up with this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match>
    <edit mode="prepend" name="family">
      <string>sans-serif</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
      <family>Noto Serif CJK JP</family>
      <family>Noto Serif CJK TC</family>
      <family>Noto Serif CJK SC</family>
      <family>HanaMinA</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Open Sans</family>
      <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
      <family>Noto Sans CJK JP</family>
      <family>Noto Sans CJK TC</family>
      <family>Noto Sans CJK SC</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
      <family>Noto Sans Mono CJK JP</family>
      <family>Noto Sans Mono CJK TC</family>
      <family>Noto Sans Mono CJK SC</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

Everything is appearing in Open Sans, including code on GitHub and ArchWiki and Rofi (which I configured to use the monospace alias). Changing line 6 to serif, for example, causes everything to be in DejaVu Serif, including the aforementioned code and Rofi; the same thing happens with changing it to monospace.

How do I get this working?

Last edited by owm (2019-04-06 14:15:27)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Fontconfig alias: everything is appearing in Open Sans

  <match>
    <edit mode="prepend" name="family">
      <string>sans-serif</string>
    </edit>
  </match>

^ Remove this bit.

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owm

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Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Fontconfig alias: everything is appearing in Open Sans

That appear to have done it.

Thanks!

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Fontconfig alias: everything is appearing in Open Sans

You're welcome.

Please add [SOLVED] to the thread title. And perhaps remove the capitalisation and add "Fontconfig alias:" at the beginning to make it a bit more descriptive.

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