Re: Default font in Konsole
On 7/15/23 8:45 PM, Benson Muite wrote:
On 7/15/23 22:16, Scott Beamer wrote:
> On 7/14/23 11:16 PM, Benson Muite wrote:
>> On 7/15/23 01:09, Scott Beamer wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I've been meaning to address this for quite some time now. I finally
>>> remembered today.
>>>
>>> Every Linux distro I've ever used including Arch, Debian, KDE neon,
>>> openSUSE, and (K)ubuntu that has KDE Plasma in it's repos, includes the
>>> "Hack" font. It's the default font in Konsole.
>>>
>>> That's not the case in Fedora. In Fedora the default font in Konsole is
>>> Noto Sans Mono.
>>>
>>> Now Hack *is* in the Fedora repo [1], but it's not installed by default.
>> Hack fonts were recently added to Fedora. So it is now possible to make
>> it default font for Konsole, though changing Konsole font can also be
>> done directly to use another monospace font.
>>
> From what i recall, that was a few years ago.
>
> I'm fully aware that I can change fonts in Konsole. That's the norm for
> terminal apps. I just think it should be more consistent with upstream
> KDE.
One can change the default monospace font for the spin from Noto
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts
As an example Deepin adds a font configuration file to:
$HOME/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
Hack fonts have fewer
glyphs than Noto, hence the choice to use Noto as default.
OK. thanks.