Currently, I'm working on setting FreeSans as the standard font in my Ubuntu installation. But it stays ubuntu at three places: The category headers in the Unity dash, the text at the logout, shutdown etc. views and the user name, password etc. (everything except window title) in the login manager.
What have I forgot?
Thanks
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Change directory:
cd /etc/lightdm
Make backup for the current configuration:
sudo cp unity-greeter.conf unity-greeter.conf.bak
Edit unity-greeter configuration file:
gksu gedit /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf
OR
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf
You will see presumably there:
#
# background = Background file to use, either an image path or a color (e.g. #772953)
# logo = Logo file to use
# theme-name = GTK+ theme to use
# font-name = Font to use
# xft-antialias = Whether to antialias Xft fonts (true or false)
# xft-dpi = Resolution for Xft in dots per inch (e.g. 96)
# xft-hintstyle = What degree of hinting to use (hintnone, hintslight, hintmedium, or hintfull)
# xft-rgba = Type of subpixel antialiasing (none, rgb, bgr, vrgb or vbgr)
#
[greeter]
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png
logo=/usr/share/unity-greeter/logo.png
theme-name=Ambiance
icon-theme-name=ubuntu-mono-dark
font-name=Ubuntu 11
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=96
xft-hintstyle=hintslight
xft-rgba=rgb
Once I saw some bug at Launchpad, near about "Unity Greeter font do not changes", however common practice people use it widely. Change the property font-name=Ubuntu 11 look alike:
font-name=FreeSans 11
Save your configuration file.
#try restart LightDM
sudo service lightdm restart
And log out, or just restart all (sometimes it is needed):
sudo reboot
Enjoy.
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equal result with dconf editor:
