Arch Linux font problem

[Gnun1x]

hey all, i installed arch linux yesterday, made it so it has the KDE plasma 5 desktop environment hehe, but now the font is awful,

i can change the font of the system, but i cannot seem to change the font of lets say my browser, how do i do that?

[manikyath]

in all honesty, if you have to ask "how do i..." arch is probably not your cup of tea.

[Gnun1x]

6 minutes ago, manikyath said:

in all honesty, if you have to ask "how do i..." arch is probably not your cup of tea.

that must be the most stupid quote there is. its just a normal question.

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, EpicKneusje said:

that must be the most stupid quote there is. its just a normal question.

and you must be the first arch linux user i've met that has to ask how to change his font.

 

seriously, try a different distro, it'll do you good.

[Gnun1x]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

and you must be the first arch linux user i've met that has to ask how to change his font.

 

seriously, try a different distro, it'll do you good.

nah, i like the way arch linux works, already fixed it tho.

thanks for helping man.

 

[Sauron]

Install the packages "ttf-ubuntu-font-family" and "freetype2"

[Gnun1x]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Install the packages "ttf-ubuntu-font-family" and "freetype2"

Already figured it out, but thanks!

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

"ttf-ubuntu-font-family"

please tell me the bubuntu font package is a thing on arch, it'd be such irony

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

please tell me the bubuntu font package is a thing on arch, it'd be such irony

Of course it is, and it's not very ironic -  font rendering is one of the things ubuntu does best. Arch is a pragmatic distribution, they don't care where things come from if they are good.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Of course it is, and it's not very ironic -  font rendering is one of the things ubuntu does best. Arch is a pragmatic distribution, they don't care where things come from if they are good.

i've honestly -and this is gonna sound a bit cynical- not bothered with arch since i've decided i want my computers to "just work".

 

which, as unfortunate as it is because i have a rather unpleasurable relationship with the debian tree, are the *buntu's. (not ubuntu itself for the love of god.. but the spinoffs )

[Misanthrope]

22 minutes ago, manikyath said:

in all honesty, if you have to ask "how do i..." arch is probably not your cup of tea.

Nonsense: Unlike other Linux communities Arch forums are usually pretty civil and newbie friendly, plus the distro has tons of documentation and such. 

 

As for your particular issue I remember a while back I installed some fonts from pacman with that community repository but that was many years ago not sure if that would solve your issue.

[manikyath]

5 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Arch forums are usually pretty civil and newbie friendly

that's news to me, maybe they've wisend up over the past few years, but last time i touched arch i got shunned for having twice as many packages as someone with a barely functional netbook had

[Misanthrope]

6 minutes ago, manikyath said:

that's news to me, maybe they've wisend up over the past few years, but last time i touched arch i got shunned for having twice as many packages as someone with a barely functional netbook had

Why did you needed to share all of your packages in a list though? You had like a hard to diagnose conflict?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

Why did you needed to share all of your packages in a list though? You had like a hard to diagnose conflict?

was just having a casual chat about some difficulty i had with getting some specific thing to work, and the topic of package count came up. needless to say idealist twatts with <700 packages were all around, while i was still trying to figure out flash content in browser  (this was before flash was thrown out by html5, and i kinda really wanted to, you know, watch youtube videos on that thing without using 500 loopholes that'd allow for 3 packages less to be installed)

[Misanthrope]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

was just having a casual chat about some difficulty i had with getting some specific thing to work, and the topic of package count came up. needless to say idealist twatts with <700 packages were all around, while i was still trying to figure out flash content in browser  (this was before flash was thrown out by html5, and i kinda really wanted to, you know, watch youtube videos on that thing without using 500 loopholes that'd allow for 3 packages less to be installed)

Well yeah that happens a lot in many places. That's why I play the newb perpetually in many places (even here sometimes if you pay attention) Not only that but it comes handy when you don't feel like arguing with some 'tistic user that produces engineering papers and such I can always go with "Well I said I think I am no expert and would defer to your judgement" and just walk away from stupid fights.

[Sauron]

44 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i've honestly -and this is gonna sound a bit cynical- not bothered with arch since i've decided i want my computers to "just work".

 

which, as unfortunate as it is because i have a rather unpleasurable relationship with the debian tree, are the *buntu's. (not ubuntu itself for the love of god.. but the spinoffs )

That's a reasonable complaint, after all Arch is for people who can put in the time and effort to build it to their liking. That's not really related with the matter at hand though.

 

Personally I find fixing Arch to be a lot simpler than fixing ubuntu and its derivatives, even though it's somewhat easier to break. The excellent documentation and the fact that you built the system yourself make troubleshooting easier. In the end it depends on the user, but I wouldn't underestimate it as a learning distribution - while as a FIRST distribution it may be too much to swallow, moving to it can force the user to learn a lot more than they normally would.

[Misanthrope]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

That's a reasonable complaint, after all Arch is for people who can put in the time and effort to build it to their liking. That's not really related with the matter at hand though.

 

Personally I find fixing Arch to be a lot simpler than fixing ubuntu and its derivatives, even though it's somewhat easier to break. The excellent documentation and the fact that you built the system yourself make troubleshooting easier. In the end it depends on the user, but I wouldn't underestimate it as a learning distribution - while as a FIRST distribution it may be too much to swallow, moving to it can force the user to learn a lot more than they normally would.

This: The one issue I ever had with arch was documented almost as soon as I found out about it and in like 20 minutes there was already someone posting how to roll back or use another version of the package at hand that had a conflict.

 

Whereas I still have unresolved issues on Ubuntu and Mint. And not little issues but a bricked install just because I decided to install the Nvidia drivers with a somewhat older GPU ( GTX 260 ). Seriously for shits and giggles I spend a lot of time looking for a solution and there wasn't any other than "Just use the shitty free drivers and don't play games at all" and this remained an issue for months, wouldn't be surprised if its still an issue today.

[manikyath]

10 hours ago, Sauron said:

Personally I find fixing Arch to be a lot simpler than fixing ubuntu and its derivatives, even though it's somewhat easier to break. The excellent documentation and the fact that you built the system yourself make troubleshooting easier. In the end it depends on the user, but I wouldn't underestimate it as a learning distribution - while as a FIRST distribution it may be too much to swallow, moving to it can force the user to learn a lot more than they normally would.

might just be my weirdness, but for me it's easier to "un-bloat" lubuntu into an extremely low resource usage OS, than getting arch to the point of being running without surprises. at some point my server was running a lubuntu install that used ~200MB of ram with apache and some other stuff running (including the desktop enviroment and a service to remote into said desktop enviroment)

[FoxxyFromStockCooler]

On 20/02/2017 at 2:17 PM, manikyath said:

in all honesty, if you have to ask "how do i..." arch is probably not your cup of tea.

Ouch, that has to honestly be one of the stupidest things I've heard in a while.

you don't have to know every single thing about linux and how to use every single feature to use Arch.