New Custom Font

[nibzy26]

Hi , I am new to UT.
I have cloned the main lomiri repo and making changes in the src qml files for greeter service.

1. What font types I can use ? Are all ubuntu based fonts supported like Arial or TimersNewRoman fonts .
   I want to say
   font.family; Arial

2. If No then why not and if yes then how can i define my custom font and which src files to change ?

Question#2 :

In qml file i have put console.log statements at many places. how can i see those statements when i interact with pinprompt.qml page for example. I have done journalctl -f -u lomiri-full-greeter.service but not seeing my console.log msgs

please advise

Thanks

[lduboeuf]

@nibzy26 said in New Custom Font:

Question#2 :

In qml file i have put console.log statements at many places. how can i see those statements when i interact with pinprompt.qml page for example. I have done journalctl -f -u lomiri-full-greeter.service but not seeing my console.log msgs

please advise

Thanks

Sorry, only can answer the #2,

Do you restart Lomiri when doing any changes ?
systemctl --user restart lomiri-full-greeter.service

[ikoz]

@nibzy26 In QML, the correct way is

font.family: "Arial"

(: not ; and Arial is a string so it should be with quotes).
All fonts supported by Ubuntu should be available on UT too.
I just checked the Arial font and it is available

[nibzy26]

@ikoz Thanks

Thats good. should the font support be in qml or in UT ?
where can i see the font files to confirm which other fonts are supported on UT ? the ttf files in /usr/share somewhere ?

Regards

[arubislander]

@nibzy26 said in New Custom Font:

... should the font support be in qml or in UT ?

Whatever fonts are available to the system are also available in QML. It is not a separate environment or anything.

where can i see the font files to confirm which other fonts are supported on UT ? the ttf files in /usr/share somewhere ?

Fonts can be found in the same places as regular desktop Ubuntu. A quick web search will turn up the info you are looking for.

[nibzy26]

@ikoz

By the way fc-list | grep -irne "arial" gives lot of output on my ubuntu PC but gives nothing on my UT redmi phone. I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my phone using ub ports installer

Just curious How did you check ?

Thanks

[arubislander]

@ikoz said in New Custom Font:

All fonts supported by Ubuntu should be available on UT too.

This is not necessarily the case, as due to base image size concerns / constraints for certain devices, a selection might have been made to not include some.
But any missing fonts can be added to the users $HOME/.fonts folder, if you are looking at personal customization.

[ikoz]

@nibzy26 I checked by changing the font in a clickable example app.