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Fragrant1470

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How to use custom user-installed font in xfce4-terminal?

I installed a set of .ttf files into ~/.local/share/fonts to use them inside the terminal. In the terminal settings, there is no option to select custom font. There is also no mention in the documentation. Is there a way to do this, or is this feature not yet supported?

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-termin … appearance

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Re: How to use custom user-installed font in xfce4-terminal?

Which font did you install? vte3 (which xfce4-terminal uses, only supports monospace fonts.

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Fragrant1470

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Re: How to use custom user-installed font in xfce4-terminal?

Which font did you install? vte3 (which xfce4-terminal uses, only supports monospace fonts.

Meslo LGS LF

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Re: How to use custom user-installed font in xfce4-terminal?

this font?

To see if it's installed properly:

fc-list | grep -i meslo

To see if its registered as a proper monospace file:

fc-match monospace

You could go to Settings > Appearance > Fonts and change the monospace font there, then in xfce4-terminal in Preferences > Appearance select to use the "System font", but it doesn't look right to me.

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Fragrant1470

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Re: How to use custom user-installed font in xfce4-terminal?

Thanks for the help.

kamil ~$fc-list | grep -i meslo
/home/kamil/.local/share/fonts/MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf: MesloLGS NF:style=Bold Italic
/home/kamil/.local/share/fonts/MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf: MesloLGS NF:style=Bold
/home/kamil/.local/share/fonts/MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf: MesloLGS NF:style=Regular
/home/kamil/.local/share/fonts/MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf: MesloLGS NF:style=Italic
kamil ~$fc-match monospace
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"

It seems I won't be able to use the font, but that's okay since I am going to use alacritty. The xfce4-terminal was a good enough default for a while though!

this font?

To see if it's installed properly:

fc-list | grep -i meslo

To see if its registered as a proper monospace file:

fc-match monospace

You could go to Settings > Appearance > Fonts and change the monospace font there, then in xfce4-terminal in Preferences > Appearance select to use the "System font", but it doesn't look right to me.