Hi I am new here and first time using Ubuntu. I installed Arabic fonts but I don’t like the default font and I want to change it. I am finding it hard to do so, trying to follow what has been said above but I don’t want to change the systems from English to Arabic, I just need the Arabic default font to be something nicer than the default one shown here.
The OS language is English, I have installed DejaVu but I just don’t know how to change the default fonts after the installation.
I can change the fonts in Libre Office no issue here.
The default font is everywhere, in YouTube, Facebook basically all the websites which I don’t like and hard to see the dots on the letters.
While that is true, it shouldn’t be necessary if the display language is English. So it’s a bit confusing.
@rawsan: Can you please let us know what the locale terminal command outputs. It may explain why it switched to the Noto font in the first place. Btw, are you possibly using some flavor of Ubuntu rather than standard Ubuntu?
did you set it as default font in Gedit?
it must be unset as default font for Arabic when you remove the files above
maybe you don’t remove them correctly
can you validate by writing the following in terminal ls /etc/fonts/{conf.d,conf.avail}/56-language-selector-ar.conf
now that you shared with me the other command, here is the result of that one:
ls /etc/fonts/{conf.d,conf.avail}/56-language-selector-ar.conf
ls: cannot access ‘/etc/fonts/conf.d/56-language-selector-ar.conf’: No such file or directory
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/56-language-selector-ar.conf
Thanks. So you are on a standard Ubuntu installation, and your browsers should prefer “DejaVu Sans” by default for displaying Arabic contents. If they don’t, maybe you changed the font settings in respective browser.