Ubuntu
fonts-ubuntu package

  1. Bug #863358
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 863358

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Can't easily use Ubuntu without using Ubuntu Mono

There's two sides to this and I would appreciate some guidance and which this bug report should focus on:

  (a) Installing Ubuntu proportional fonts (x7) and installing Ubuntu Mono fixed width fonts (x4) independently.

  (b) Being able to select which is used by the operating system.

for (a), this is a matter of packaging. They could be split out. For technical reasons it may be desirable to have one .deb package installed, but not the other; such as for saving disk space.

for (b), the two can be set independently. They are saved in the keys 'font-name' and 'monospace-font-name'. But default these are:

  echo {,monospace-}font-name | xargs -n1 gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface
  'Ubuntu 11'
  'Ubuntu Mono 13'

although the user is able to override the defaults for one without affecting the other.