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narmod

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From: Trujillo - Perú

Registered: 2012-12-29

Posts: 6

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Default Monospace Font

Hello,
After a few updates I noticed a new setting on the Appearance settings dialog, Default Monospace Font, which is awesome. However, it doesn't seem to be working for me.

As the image shows, I have it set to Noto Sans Mono 12, however apps like Terminal and Mousepad use Noto Sans Mono 11, I have the "Use system monospace font" checked on both.

I also have this file .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf. However if I remove this file, the Appearance setting isn't applied either.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="pattern">
    <test qual="any" name="family">
      <string>serif</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same">
      <string>Noto Serif</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="pattern">
    <test qual="any" name="family">
      <string>sans-serif</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same">
      <string>Noto Sans</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="pattern">
    <test qual="any" name="family">
      <string>monospace</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same">
      <string>Noto Sans Mono</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

I use Archlinux with xfce4-settings version 4.12.3-1

So the question is, if I'm missing something or doing something wrong or if I should report this as a bug.

Last edited by narmod (2018-06-20 13:33:38)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 10,996

Re: Default Monospace Font

It looks like xfce4-terminal uses the monspace setting from org.gnome.desktop.interface.monospace-font-name (ref: https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-termina … en.c#n2673) and not xsettings.

Perhaps creating a bug report to see if the developer would consider using the xsettings value is the way to proceed.

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KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Default Monospace Font

On another note, I have this weird behavior where checking the "Use system monospace font" box in Preferences also affects text in context menus. Even tested in a new user environment and during a Live session.

Filed a bug report here.

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KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Default Monospace Font

Digging deeper I deduced that since GtkMenu being spawned inside GtkTextView, it's inheriting the monospace font.

.context-menu {
 font: initial;
}

fixes it but I wonder what could be done programmatically to fix it. For instance, Xfce Terminal doesn't produce this behavior. Perhaps this function needs to be changed.

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