Patched fonts not showing up on gnome-terminal
Thanks to @egmont's link to https://askubuntu.com/questions/1046871/nerd-font-not-fond-in-terminal-profile/, I figured out a way to get around this, as mentioned in one of the comments in that post:
- Install GNOME Tweaks
- Set the system monospace font to "SauceCodePro Mono Regular"
- In the Terminal's Font Preference, I leave the Custom Font option unchecked, .i.e use system font.
This is a bug with gnome-terminal.
A workaround is to set the font of a gnome-terminal profile by using dconf.
First you will need to find out the id of your profile:
dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/
This will output information for all your profiles.
Grab the id of the profile you want to set the font for, it should look something like :b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9
and then set the font for that terminal by running:
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/font "'<chosen_font_name> <font_size>'"
The double quoting is important, I don't know why but you need to doubly quote your font and size.
So for example I used this to set a font I patched with nerd fonts with a size of 13, and the command was:
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/font "'UbuntuMono Nerd Font Mono 13'"
Note use-system-font
should be false, you can set this by ticking 'Custom font' in the profile options dialog or set it via dconf.