Recently I have been messing with gnome-terminal to make it look more appealing. I tried using installed fonts that were in my ~/.fonts folder (installed with Font Viewer) but when I edit the gnome-terminal profile, the installed font doesn't show up.
The font that I am trying to use is cure.se.ttf, and every other program that allows font changing works, as well as it being intstalled globally.
Am I installing them wrong, or is there a certian place they need to be?
The configuration GUI seems to filter non-monospace fonts.
A workaround is to use dconf directly to set fonts:
# get your profile id
dconf list '/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/'
# get your current font
dconf read '/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:PROFILE_ID/font'
# set the font, make sure you include those single quotes
dconf write '/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:PROFILE_ID/font' "'FreeMono 18'"
What worked for me is putting the font files in ~/.local/share/fonts and then running,
$ sudo fc-cache -vf ~/.local/share/fonts
The fonts in ~/.local/share/fonts are available for all apps now.
On Ubuntu 22.04, placing the new .ttf files under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu, makes the new fonts autopopulate under gnome-terminal's font preferences.
Hope it helps!
Had the same issue. Setting font permissions resolved my problem. For example:
chmod 755 ~/.fonts/cure.se.ttf
Then open new terminal instance.
