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konos5

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[Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

Hi everyone,

I came across these wiki pages while trying to change GNOME fonts.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts

The problem is that there is no mention of how I set a particular font as "active"!
I 've found tons of information of how to set antialiasing, rendering techniques etc but not a word
of how to set a particular font as "enabled"!

For instance, I just downloaded ttf-ms-fonts from AUR and installed them! At the moment I can't use the gnome-tweak-tool
nor do I want to. dconf-editor is also not an option as it is again a graphical tool..!
Therefore, how can I change my fonts from the terminal or in other words what settings does the gnome-tweak-tool plays with to set my new fonts..?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by konos5 (2011-06-11 02:00:05)

kolos

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

in to change the font of gnome-shell (cantarell) go to the folder of your theme and open gnome-shell.css

stage {
    font-family: aller, sans-serif;
}

change it and restart gnome shell
at least that worked for me

Last edited by kolos (2011-06-10 17:00:02)

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konos5

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

...OK...and where would that be..?
I'm using the default gnome3 theme and everything..

kolos

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

default in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css

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konos5

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

OK!
Found it and did:

stage {
    font-family: aller, times new roman;
}

But yet it doesn't work..!
Could it be that the font-family is wrong?

kofrad

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

Make sure the fontpath is properly set, from what I understand you must set your fontpath every time you login again. I Just used the following in my ~/.xinitrc

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
xset fp rehash

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kolos

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

stage {
    font-family: Times New Roman;
}
aller is the font that i'm using

Last edited by kolos (2011-06-10 18:15:46)

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konos5

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

Sorry guys..!
Tried out all of what you said but unfortunatelly nothing worked..!
So far I have only managed to change my fonts using the dconf-editor..!

Anyway..thanks for your time!

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

I was just about to suggest dconf

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jnguyen

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

Use gsettings!

To see list of schemas:

gsettings list-schemas | sort

To see keys for a schema:

gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.interface

To set a key:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name "Sans 10"

Last edited by jnguyen (2011-06-10 19:02:26)

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konos5

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

Use gsettings!

To see list of schemas:

gsettings list-schemas | sort

To see keys for a schema:

gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.interface

To set a key:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name "Sans 10"

Yeap!
That's it! That did the trick!
Thank you very much!

BTW, does anybody know how to mark this thread as "solved"?

kofrad

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Re: [Solved] How to change GNOME fonts from the terminal

I think you can do that by editing your original post in the thread and then changing the title.

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