I'm trying to set the default style of a font in fonts.conf because for whatever reason the bold version always gets matched:

$ fc-match monospace
LigaOperatorMonoSSm-Bold.otf: "Liga Operator Mono SSm" "Bold"

This is my fonts.conf:

true

  
    Liga Operator Mono SSm
    Medium
  

  
    serif
    Circular Std
  
  
    sans-serif
    Circular Std
  
  
    sans
    Circular Std
  
  
    monospace
    Liga Operator Mono SSm
  
  
    terminal
    Liga Operator Mono SSm

As you can see, I've tried to set the default width to Medium but it unfortunately does not work. These are the available styles:

/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-LightItalic.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Light Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-MediumItalic.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Medium Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-Medium.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Medium,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-BoldItalic.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Bold Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-Book.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Book,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-Bold.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Bold,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-BookItalic.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Book Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/OTF/LigaOperatorMonoSSm-Light.otf: Liga Operator Mono SSm:style=Light,Regular

Does anyone see where the mistake is? Thanks!

how do i install the package xorg-x11-font-utils for opensuse? I need it for microsoft fonts from here https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm but it always complains that iam missing the package xorg-x11-font-utils. This is the error message it get sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: xorg-x11-font-utils is needed by msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch Sadly its not packages for opensuse, so i googled but there are only sites which say its suitable for fedora, centos or rhel. Does somebody know where i can get it for opensuse tumbleweed

I want to replace every font with a monospace font, which already works. However, I could not figure out how to specify a default font size. Here is my configuration file:

serif
		
			Fira Code
		
	
	
		sans-serif
		
			Fira Code
		
	
	
		monospace
		
			Fira Code

Any help appreciated.

For years I've used this to run Chrome/Chromium:

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 chrome

This no longer works in Chrome 136.0.7103.59 (Official Build) (64-bit). Does anyone know why? How to get back the old behavior? Here's what I'm talking about: It's also discussed here and here's the corresponding bug report .

I want to change system font used by applications globally (or per user) in CentOS. How to do that? Perhaps I should modify ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf file? I would like to set Tahoma font for applications like it was in WinXP.

Aptos font is not present in the system. The LibreOffice's "Apply replacement table" is off.

$ fc-match aptos
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

Yet Writer definitely renders text in Aptos using Noto Serif (not Sans). Why? What defines this choice? **UPDATE**: Tested a bit more... it's actually worse than that. Writer renders one Aptos line in serif, another Aptos line in sans. The original file comes from MS Office and is a DOCX, but the effect stays even after saving it as ODT. On the sample below, the font dropdown states "Calibri" for the row 3, and "Aptos" for the rows 1 and 2.

I have the following fontconfig configuration, but the font weights aren't changing as expected. I discovered that changing target="font" to target="pattern" makes it work.

Noto Sans
    
    
      medium
    
    
      medium
    
  

  
    
      PingFang SC 
    
    
        medium
    
      
        medium
    
  

  
    
      SF Pro Text
    
    
        medium
    
    
      medium

Based on my research, I believe target="font" should work as well. Could anyone help me understand what might be causing this behavior?

![semibold, regular ][1] Yellow XTerm from xterm -fa 'Cascadia SemiBold' Pink XTerm from xterm -fa Cascadia As you can see, when I use Cascadia SemiBold the text is slightly heavier but the headers are rendered with the same weight, while in the other XTerm, using plain Cascadia, the headers are rendered with, I think so because it's heavier than Semibold, Cascadia Bold. If it is possible to instruct XTerm to use two specific weights for the regular font and the bold faces, I was unable to find the solution in its man page. Is it possible to instruct XTerm to use two specific weights for the regular font and the bold faces? --- ## Addendum Pink is "regular" Cascadia, yellow is "Cascadia Code ExtraLight" and here XTerm was able to deduce a proper bold face. It's a little bit puzzling… ![regular, extra light ][2]

I cannot get Unicode glyphs to render on Monjaro i3. I have installed a bunch of noto fonts, including noto-fonts, noto-fonts-cjk, noto-fonts-emoji, noto-fonts-extra, ttf-noto-nerd. When I run fc-match with an unrecognised Unicode character, it supposedly matches the correct font. This is for U+F312:

fc-match ""                                                                                                                                                                                      
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

I have run fc-cache -fv and rebooted multiple times.

fc-cache -fv
Font directories:
	/home/aidanb/.local/share/fonts
	/usr/local/share/fonts
	/usr/share/fonts
	/var/lib/snapd/desktop/fonts
	/home/aidanb/.fonts
	/usr/share/fonts/OTF
	/usr/share/fonts/TTF
	/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro
	/usr/share/fonts/cantarell
	/usr/share/fonts/droid
	/usr/share/fonts/encodings
	/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts
	/usr/share/fonts/liberation
	/usr/share/fonts/misc
	/usr/share/fonts/noto
	/usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk
	/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large
/home/aidanb/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 11 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/OTF: caching, new cache contents: 23 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 554 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 6 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/droid: caching, new cache contents: 27 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/liberation: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 125 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto: caching, new cache contents: 2137 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk: caching, new cache contents: 80 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/home/aidanb/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts/OTF: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/droid: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/liberation: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/misc: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/aidanb/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/aidanb/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

Here's my current version:

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID="ManjaroLinux"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="24.1.2"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="Xahea"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

Please help! Thank you.

On my Fedora Linux system, fontconfig does not use the msttcore fonts when it should. Here's one example; let's concentrate on the Courier New Bold font in a PDF file:

$ pdffonts -subst a.pdf | grep 'Courier New Bold'
Courier New Bold                       8345  0 Noto Sans Mono Regular               /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-vf/NotoSansMono[wght].ttf

fontconfig thinks that Noto Sans Mono Regular is the best available match for Courier New Bold. Now, fontconfig is aware that the msttcore fonts are installed:

$ fc-list | grep courbd
/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/courbd.ttf: Courier New:style=Bold,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,đậm,Lodia

$ fc-query /usr/share/fonts/msttcore/courbd.ttf
Pattern has 29 elts (size 32)
	family: "Courier New"(s)
	familylang: "en"(s)
	style: "Bold"(s) "Negreta"(s) "tučné"(s) "fed"(s) "Fett"(s) "Έντονα"(s) "Negrita"(s) "Lihavoitu"(s) "Gras"(s) "Félkövér"(s) "Grassetto"(s) "Vet"(s) "Halvfet"(s) "Pogrubiony"(s) "Negrito"(s) "Полужирный"(s) "Fet"(s) "Kalın"(s) "Krepko"(s) "đậm"(s) "Lodia"(s)
	stylelang: "en"(s) "ca"(s) "cs"(s) "da"(s) "de"(s) "el"(s) "es"(s) "fi"(s) "fr"(s) "hu"(s) "it"(s) "nl"(s) "no"(s) "pl"(s) "pt"(s) "ru"(s) "sv"(s) "tr"(s) "sl"(s) "vi"(s) "eu"(s)
	fullname: "Courier New Bold"(s) "Courier New Negreta"(s) "Courier New tučné"(s) "Courier New fed"(s) "Courier New Fett"(s) "Courier New Έντονα"(s) "Courier New Negrita"(s) "Courier New Lihavoitu"(s) "Courier New Gras"(s) "Courier New Félkövér"(s) "Courier New Grassetto"(s) "Courier New Vet"(s) "Courier New Halvfet"(s) "Courier New Pogrubiony"(s) "Courier New Negrito"(s) "Courier New Полужирный"(s) "Courier New Fet"(s) "Courier New Kalın"(s) "Courier New Krepko"(s) "Courier New đậm"(s) "Courier New Lodia"(s)
	fullnamelang: "en"(s) "ca"(s) "cs"(s) "da"(s) "de"(s) "el"(s) "es"(s) "fi"(s) "fr"(s) "hu"(s) "it"(s) "nl"(s) "no"(s) "pl"(s) "pt"(s) "ru"(s) "sv"(s) "tr"(s) "sl"(s) "vi"(s) "eu"(s)
	slant: 0(i)(s)
	weight: 200(f)(s)
	width: 100(f)(s)
	spacing: 100(i)(s)
	foundry: "Mono"(s)
	file: "/usr/share/fonts/msttcore/courbd.ttf"(s)
	index: 0(i)(s)
	outline: True(s)
	scalable: True(s)
	charset: 
	0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
        ... a bunch of stuff omitted ...
	lang: aa|af|ar|av|ay|az-az|be|bg|bi|bin|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|co|cs|cy|da|de|el|en|eo|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gn|gv|he|ho|hr|hu|ia|ig|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|kaa|ki|kk|kl|kum|ky|la|lb|lez|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|nso|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ru|se|sel|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|ss|st|sv|sw|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|tt|tyv|uk|uz|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|yi|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|lg|li|mn-mn|ms|na|ng|pap-an|pap-aw|rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za|agr|ayc|bem|dsb|lij|mfe|mhr|miq|mjw|nhn|niu|szl|tpi|unm|wae|yuw(s)
	fontversion: 184812(i)(s)
	capability: "otlayout:arab"(s)
	fontformat: "TrueType"(s)
	decorative: False(s)
	postscriptname: "CourierNewPS-BoldMT"(s)
	color: False(s)
	symbol: False(s)
	variable: False(s)
	fonthashint: True(s)
	order: 0(i)(s)
	namedinstance: False(s)
	fontwrapper: "SFNT"(s)

Why doesn't fontconfig use this font, which is a perfect match for the font in the PDF file, rather than Noto Sans Mono Regular? What is wrong with my setup and how can I fix it?

I find the anti-aliased fonts really difficult to read in the terminal. I have been able to disable anti-aliasing across the board by using the ~/.fonts.cnf file. This makes using everything else much less pleasant, however. Can anyone tell me how to disable anti-aliasing *only in the lxterminal terminal application*? This is on a Raspberry Pi if that makes a difference. I'm using lxterminal, which allows you to set the font and font size but not its aliasing.

There is a monospace font family I like called IBM Plex Mono. It comes with several font weights beyond just normal and bold, namely:

Thin
ExtraLight
Light
Regular
Medium
SemiBold
Bold

Now, I have two workstations that I use regularly. One of them runs Kubuntu 22.04, where I have installed this font family using apt (it is in the repos). The other one runs Fedora Kinoite, and I have installed the font by downloading the .woff2 files and copying them to my ~/.local/share/fonts directory. On both machines, I have set the default monospace font (using the Fonts settings in KDE settings) to **IBM Plex Medium,** which is the weight I like to use in my terminal (Konsole). After doing this, Konsole uses the correct medium weight in the terminal. However, the two machines render *bold* text in the terminal differently, which you can test by running echo -e "\033[1mBold\033[0m normal" to print some bold text using ANSI escape codes. - On the Kubuntu machine, a bolder font weight (I think it's the Bold weight) is used. - On the Fedora machine, the font weight is exactly the same, as though the font resolution has decided that Medium is “already” bold enough. My immediate problem, of course, is that I would like to figure out how to get Fedora (or at least Konsole) to use a variant of the font that actually has heavier weight so that I can tell bold and normal text apart. But my question is broader than that—given a pile of .woff2 (or .ttf or whatever) files in ~/.local/share/fonts, and that I have specified one of these as my default monospace font, how does Linux decide which variant to use when Konsole asks for "default monospace with bold weight"? Is there a way I can control this myself, e.g. in /etc/fonts/conf.d/? ---- This question is similar to mine, but it's fairly old and doesn't really cover the "best practices" for how to set up these kinds of mapping (e.g. where I should stick that XML): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/311988/how-do-i-alias-the-bold-weight-of-a-font-family-to-the-bold-weight-of-another-fo

By default, the monospace font for my distribution (Trisquel) is Font A. I would like to change it to font B. Some time ago, I managed to make a partial change to Font C, but I have since forgotten this method and cannot reproduce it. The trouble is that now I may see all three fonts in monospaced contexts. Using gnome-tweak-tool as both root and user, I have changed the "monospace" field to Font B. I have also done this via the command line on gsettings, again as both root and user. However: * If a web page requests the style {font-family: monospace;}, Font C displays. Edit: this was a setting in Firefox, which I have changed. * In the Inkscape and gedit font menus, there is a font called simply "Monospace", which is font A. My distribution's default UI fonts, which I have changed, also display in these menus under the names "Sans" and "Serif". * When Thunderbird messages I have received are formatted as plain text, they are displayed in Font A. Unless explicitly changed, messages I write also display in the fonts "Sans" and "Monospace". How can I fix this situation, such that Font B displays in all contexts described above, and the mysterious "Sans" font is replaced by the UI font I am currently using?

I have recently installed Cascadia Code (because I love its "4") and **I can use it in XTerm** $ xrdb -merge XTerm*faceName: Cascadia Code ^D $ **but**, otoh, if I try using the command line $ xterm -fa 'Cascadia Code' $ xterm: No absolute path found for shell: Code (above, the error message is printed after the prompt!). I know the Unix SE Q&A https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/269351/xterm-no-absolute-path-found-for-shell , and I can understand the error message except that XTerm shouldn't look at Code in isolation. What I'm missing? --- As a follow up to a now deleted comment (ty Chris Davies) I tried xterm -fa 'Cascadia\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\\\ Code' to finally realize that any number of backslashes, it doesn't matter. --- I'm on Suse Tumbleweed, $ xterm -v $ XTerm(389) (also here the message is printed after the next prompt). Here it is the output of fc-list: $ fc-list 'Cascadia Code' /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Italic.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiBoldItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiBold:style=SemiBold Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-LightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code Light:style=Light Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiBold.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiBold:style=SemiBold,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiLight.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiLight:style=SemiLight,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Light.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code Light:style=Light,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-ExtraLight.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-ExtraLightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Bold.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-BoldItalic.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Bold Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Regular.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiLightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiLight:style=SemiLight Italic,Italic $

How to run a X11 only app with user defined font size and font style ? Is it possible to run different X11 apps with different font size and style ? e.g. Run xclipboard with font **FreeSans** 14px and run xman with **Roboto** 12px . Is there any environment variable available to override font settings of GUI apps ? like env FONT_SIZE="16px" xterm

I am running Debian and I have installed the package texlive-fonts-extra which contains the Adobe font SourceCodePro: ~~~ # dpkg -S /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro texlive-fonts-extra: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro # find /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-Bold.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-ExtraLight.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-MediumIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-BlackIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-ExtraLightIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-Semibold.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-LightIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-Regular.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-Black.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-RegularIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-Light.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-BoldIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-SemiboldIt.otf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe/sourcecodepro/SourceCodePro-Medium.otf ~~~ But this font is not available to my system, because fc-list does not show it: ~~~ # fc-list : file | grep SourceCodePro ~~~ How to make it available?

I created a folder in ~/.local/share/fonts for a font. The folder has many .ttf files. I used fc-cache -v and I got errors about invalid cache files in ~/.cache/fontconfig. The font seems to have been installed but I do not know if I should do anything about the errors.

Every time I run Oct, it outputs this error:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 7: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 7: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 9: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 34: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 35: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 35: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 35: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 36: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 36: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf", line 8: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

I've just installed the kali 2020.2 with kali-linux-2020.2-installer-amd64.iso in VMware 15.1.0. And I choose the default desktop environment "xfce". Everything looks good except when I open the terminal, the font size is too small that I almost can't see it. I clicked the "file" => "propertities" => "font" in terminal and changed the font size from 10 to 20. But after I clicked the "ok" button, nothing happened. And from the "properties" view, the font size is still 10. Could anyone tell me how to change the font size in the terminal in kali 2020.2? Thank you.

When running with verbose output, and sometime even without, the first thing fontconfig writes about any font is a line like the following:

Pattern has 38 elts (size 48)

What do these numbers represent? And are they used for? After looking in the source code I believe "elts" is short for elements, but I still don't know what the numbers mean and if they are relevant for understanding the behavior of fontconfig. Below is a full example of output (with some of the charset lines removed):

-shellsession
$ fc-match "DejaVu Sans" -v
Pattern has 38 elts (size 48)
		family: "DejaVu Sans"(s)
		familylang: "en"(s)
		style: "Book"(s)
		stylelang: "en"(s)
		fullname: "DejaVu Sans"(s)
		fullnamelang: "en"(s)
		slant: 0(i)(s)
		weight: 80(f)(s)
		width: 100(f)(s)
		size: 12(f)(s)
		pixelsize: 12.5(f)(s)
		foundry: "PfEd"(w)
		antialias: True(w)
		hintstyle: 1(i)(w)
		hinting: True(s)
		verticallayout: False(s)
		autohint: False(s)
		globaladvance: True(s)
		file: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf"(w)
		index: 0(i)(w)
		outline: True(w)
		scalable: True(w)
		dpi: 75(f)(s)
		scale: 1(f)(s)
		charset:
		0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
		0001: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
(w)
		lang: aa|ab|af|ar|ast|av|ay|az-az|az-ir|ba|bm|be|bg|bi|bin|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cu|cv|cy|da|de|el|en|eo|es|et|eu|fa|fi|fj|fo|fr|ff|fur|fy|ga|gd|gl|gn|gv|ha|haw|he|ho|hr|hu|hy|ia|ig|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|iu|ka|kaa|ki|kk|kl|ku-am|ku-ir|kum|kv|kw|ky|la|lb|lez|ln|lo|lt|lv|mg|mh|mi|mk|mo|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|nso|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ro|ru|sah|sco|se|sel|sh|shs|sk|sl|sm|sma|smj|smn|sms|so|sq|sr|ss|st|sv|sw|tg|tk|tl|tn|to|tr|ts|tt|tw|tyv|ug|uk|uz|ve|vi|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|yi|yo|zu|ak|an|ber-dz|ber-ma|crh|csb|ee|fat|fil|hsb|ht|hz|jv|kab|kj|kr|ku-iq|ku-tr|kwm|lg|li|mn-mn|ms|na|ng|nv|ota|pap-an|pap-aw|qu|quz|rn|rw|sc|sd|sg|sn|su|ty|za(s)
		fontversion: 155320(i)(s)
		capability: "otlayout:DFLT otlayout:arab otlayout:armn otlayout:brai otlayout:cans otlayout:cher otlayout:cyrl otlayout:geor otlayout:grek otlayout:hani otlayout:hebr otlayout:kana otlayout:lao  otlayout:latn otlayout:math otlayout:nko  otlayout:ogam otlayout:runr otlayout:tfng otlayout:thai"(w)
		fontformat: "TrueType"(w)
		embeddedbitmap: True(s)
		decorative: False(s)
		lcdfilter: 1(i)(w)
		namelang: "en"(s)
		prgname: "fc-match"(s)
		postscriptname: "DejaVuSans"(w)
		color: False(w)
		symbol: False(s)
		variable: False(s)