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Recently I have been messing with gnome-terminal to make it look more appealing. I tried using installed fonts that were in my ~/.fonts folder (installed with Font Viewer) but when I edit the gnome-terminal profile, the installed font doesn't show up.

The font that I am trying to use is cure.se.ttf, and every other program that allows font changing works, as well as it being intstalled globally.

Am I installing them wrong, or is there a certian place they need to be?

Mobo
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The configuration GUI seems to filter non-monospace fonts.

A workaround is to use dconf directly to set fonts:

# get your profile id
dconf list '/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/'
# get your current font
dconf read '/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:PROFILE_ID/font'
# set the font, make sure you include those single quotes
dconf write '/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:PROFILE_ID/font' "'FreeMono 18'"
user11712282
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What worked for me is putting the font files in ~/.local/share/fonts and then running,

$ sudo fc-cache -vf ~/.local/share/fonts

The fonts in ~/.local/share/fonts are available for all apps now.

user.dz
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RogerDodger
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Had the same issue. Setting font permissions resolved my problem. For example:

chmod 755 ~/.fonts/cure.se.ttf

Then open new terminal instance.

folq
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Updating your font cache might solve the issue. Try to run the following command:

fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts
Aditya
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evandromr
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    Just did again, still not working. – Mobo Oct 20 '13 at 19:22
  • There is probably a better way, but what worked for me was moving the fonts to the default location on /usr/share/fonts and them update the cache again. – evandromr Jun 06 '15 at 07:05