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CaeriTech

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[SOLVED] Lat2-Terminus16 font seems to no longer be installed

[Synopsis] Nothing to do with Lat2-Terminus16.  Instead the ttf-dejavu font was failing to install (see below) and sway was falling back to a default.

Below are my current font configuration setting:

/etc/vconsole.config

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FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
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/etc/sway/config

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gsettings set $gnome-schema font-name 'Lat2-Terminus16'
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I don't explicity set the default for my conky but I'm thinking I should.

This has all worked as expected until recently.  I now get what seems to be a system default font on my desktop.  So my question is has Lat2-Terminus16 been removed for the default install and if so what would be the recommended font to use to replace it that has a similar appearance?

Last edited by CaeriTech (2023-09-05 15:09:01)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Lat2-Terminus16 font seems to no longer be installed

It's in https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/kbd/ but I doubt that sway uses console fonts… let alone gtk.
You've probably so far been using the default serif font and thta has now changed because you installed some other font?

fc-match sans-serif
fc-list | grep -i terminus

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CaeriTech

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Re: [SOLVED] Lat2-Terminus16 font seems to no longer be installed

Well that would explain a few things.  Guess what I need is a premier on font configuration so that I can get the terminal, gtk and Wayland to uses the exact same font style if that's is even possible.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Lat2-Terminus16 font seems to no longer be installed

Terminus is available in pretty much all formats, you're looking to configure https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/an … inus-nerd/ as default font.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts (ignore/omit the language restrictions)

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CaeriTech

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Re: [SOLVED] Lat2-Terminus16 font seems to no longer be installed

Thanks seth.  You were spot on regarding the change in the installed font.  Turns out ttf-dejavu was failing because of missing signatures and that in turn was caused by using an outdated Arch iso for the install.  Updating to the Sep/01 iso solved the issue all round.
 
The references you provided I'm sure will point me in the right direction so that I will no longer rely on default fonts and instead explicitly configure the fonts for all my apps where possible.

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    [CaeriTech remains only artificially intelligent.  Turing would be aghast at just how artificial.]