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- October 14, 2018 at 4:23 PM #224
AnonymousInactive@- Posts 170
Hi, all If you can’t stand Times New Roman like me, then here’s a trick to help
in your browser settings look for fonts.. the fonts we use are Lato, Arimo
or you can set it to your favorite font. Just be aware that this will change your font for ALL sites.
works on Chrome, and Fire Fox. Did not test on IE or Edge, as I do not use those.
its just the little things that bug me! - October 14, 2018 at 7:29 PM #233
AnonymousInactive@- Posts 136
I have to chime in for us Linux users… (me and @daphnetilbrook for certain)
In Ubuntu there is a meta-package called
ubuntu-restricted-extras
which installsttf-mscorefonts-installer
. You can install one or the other. (ttf-mscorefonts-installer
is a dependency ofubuntu-restricted-extras
but the former also installs multimedia codecs… but that’s completely O/T here.)So, fire up your terminal and type
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
orsudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
(or fire up your Software Center and install one or the other… if you install both, it’s not a problem… just I don’t like extra redundancy 😉 and the latter depends upon the former.)Debian users… even though Ubuntu is based upon your favorite distro, you need to make sure the
non-free
repository is enabled in/etc/apt/sources.list
(It should look like this:)
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
run
sudo apt update
then installttf-mscorefonts-installer
like above.I do know that, for Fedora users, it’s in the RPMFusion repos… consult the RPMFusion website for details on how to configure it.
- October 16, 2018 at 11:26 PM #289
AnonymousInactive@- Posts 170
I had the fonts installed on my PC but the browser defaults were Times New Roman.. Uggh hated them.
I don’t know how the other OSes handle them but I got mine fixed he heThanks for the Linux update!
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