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      Vistaus
      last edited by 7 Nov 2023, 19:10

      Everything is rendered in Ubuntu-L.ttf, which is very hard to read. On 16.04 I could overcome that by copying my own fonts over the default ones in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/*.ttf, but that doesn't work anymore on 20.04. 😞 Is there any way to make this work still or at least find a way to use Ubuntu-R or Ubuntu-M instead of the hard-to-read Ubuntu-L?

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        arubislander @Vistaus
        last edited by 7 Nov 2023, 19:53

        @Vistaus said in Change default font:

        On 16.04 I could overcome that by copying my own fonts over the default ones in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/*.ttf, but that doesn't work anymore on 20.04.

        How does it not work on 20.04? What goes wrong?

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          Vistaus @arubislander
          last edited by 7 Nov 2023, 19:56

          @arubislander said in Change default font:

          @Vistaus said in Change default font:

          On 16.04 I could overcome that by copying my own fonts over the default ones in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/*.ttf, but that doesn't work anymore on 20.04.

          How does it not work on 20.04? What goes wrong?

          What goes wrong is that no matter what font I copy over, like on 16.04, after rebooting the font remains Ubuntu-L on 20.04.

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            arubislander @Vistaus
            last edited by 7 Nov 2023, 20:18

            @Vistaus so maybe you are copying it to the wrong location?

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              Vistaus @arubislander
              last edited by 7 Nov 2023, 20:53

              @arubislander said in Change default font:

              @Vistaus so maybe you are copying it to the wrong location?

              I'm copying them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/, overwriting the existing files, same as I did on 16.04. So i.e. Verdana.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-L.ttf and /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-R.ttf - VerdanaBold.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-B.ttf, etc.

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                arubislander @Vistaus
                last edited by 8 Nov 2023, 07:16

                @Vistaus said in Change default font:

                after rebooting the font remains Ubuntu-L

                And are you saying that the change has no effect at all? Or that the effect is reverted after a reboot?

                What device are you running? And is this the same device you ran 16.04 on, but just updated, or is it a different device?

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                  Vistaus @arubislander
                  last edited by 8 Nov 2023, 10:11

                  @arubislander said in Change default font:

                  @Vistaus said in Change default font:

                  after rebooting the font remains Ubuntu-L

                  And are you saying that the change has no effect at all? Or that the effect is reverted after a reboot?

                  What device are you running? And is this the same device you ran 16.04 on, but just updated, or is it a different device?

                  The change has no effect at all.

                  My device is a Fxtec Pro1 X with 20.04. I finally received it the other day. My 16.04 device is a Xiaomi Redmi 9, so not the same device.

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                    arubislander @Vistaus
                    last edited by 8 Nov 2023, 15:47

                    @Vistaus, Ah, OK. I see on the devices page that @TheKit is a Maintainer of this port. Maybe they know how to help you achieve your goal.

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