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chrisco23

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[SOLVED] Get back nerd-fonts-roboto after OK-ing ttf-robot-mono-nerd

A pacman (technically yay) update today asked me if I wanted to replace nerd-fonts-roboto-mono with ttf-roboto-mono-nerd.

I rushed through it.  I figured anyway it might keep nagging me on future updates.

So I totally screwed up my alacritty font settings.

It's not just ugly, it's partially unreadable (letters overlapping).

What's the best way (and minimal package) to restore my nerd-fonts-roboto-mono?

OR, and I would think even better solution may be:

How should I change alacritty.yml from:
    family: RobotoMono Nerd Font Mono
to:
    family: ???

Last edited by chrisco23 (2023-01-20 03:30:03)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Get back nerd-fonts-roboto after OK-ing ttf-robot-mono-nerd

So what aren't you telling us that would explain how you did that replacement with two packages neither of which are in the repos or aur?

EDIT: sorry, ttf-roboto-mono-nerd has apparently *just* been added.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-01-20 02:54:37)

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chrisco23

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Re: [SOLVED] Get back nerd-fonts-roboto after OK-ing ttf-robot-mono-nerd

From my pacman.log:

[2023-01-19T13:45:38-0800] [ALPM] removed nerd-fonts-roboto-mono (2.2.2-2)
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[2023-01-19T13:45:40-0800] [ALPM] installed ttf-roboto-mono-nerd (2.3.1-2)

"yay" command asked me if I wanted to replace, during my usual daily Arch update.

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Get back nerd-fonts-roboto after OK-ing ttf-robot-mono-nerd

Sorry, it seems it has just been added to [community] and I'd wager it was brought in from the AUR and renamed.  So just fix your alacritty config ... edit: but the fontconfig name doesn't appear to have changed.  It's still "RobotoMono Nerd Font Mono".  What is the output of the following:

fc-match "RobotoMono Nerd Font Mono"

Last edited by Trilby (2023-01-20 02:58:13)

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chrisco23

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Re: [SOLVED] Get back nerd-fonts-roboto after OK-ing ttf-robot-mono-nerd

Thanks for putting me on the right track.  And you're right, now, the name does seem to have not changed, and now things are working as they should.

The output is:
Roboto Mono Nerd Font Complete Mono.ttf: "RobotoMono Nerd Font Mono" "Regular"

I really don't know what happened there.  I hit my usual key shortcut to launch a terminal in i3, and it was all messed up so I was trying various things in the alacritty config to get it back to where it was.  In the end it's back where it started so I don't know why.

The only other thing I can think that I did was I installed font-manager, to help me troubleshoot, but I didn't do anything within font-manager, just ran it.

All fine now.

Maybe my eyes are just bugging out but I made one final adjustment:

I had offset: x: set to -2, and for letter spacing it now looks better changing that to 0.  Maybe I'm imagining things from staring at the screen too long.

Last edited by chrisco23 (2023-01-20 03:31:33)