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hi there anyway of changing the font for the n900 , there are some really good fonts out there and installing/using a different font can really personalise the feel of the phone

i was thinking there must be a way via xterm replacing the standard font with a different font of the same extension

or

maybe an app that installs and will swap the files at users choice , could take it further and let the app back up the original font so that it could be replaced to default at any time by the user


sorry if its been discussed before

hope everyone is smiley in maemo world :-)

i want to change them too was thinking of replacing:

nosnb.ttf
nosnr.ttf
nosns.ttf
nscnr.ttf

for my own font, ( 4copies of the same font renamed as those above) and putting them into:
usr/share/fonts/nokia
(overwriting the ones there)

this will probably work, but dont want to be stuck with them, incase i cant change them again (that was the case with symbian)
but on symbian i could put them in fonts on memory card, and remove memory card to disable them

Create your own fonts.conf in your /home/user folder.

Don't go replacing or deleting your system fonts.

Hi!
Do you know a way to increase the font size of the system and applications? they are too small. There is no way from settings
thanks.
LP

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ight=font+size

Appart from changing the sizes, you can set the font. I personally use Droid Sans, 1pt lower than normal.

i dont know how to create my own fonts.conf!

replacing the system fonts cant be that bad, if it goes pearshaped i could just reflash the phone?

I agree - it would be great to have an app to change fonts and font sizes without having to use X-Terminal. The method described in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ight=font+size works, but only up to a point. I have not been able to change the font size in the phone app with it.

CHANGING SYSTEM FONTS (easy guide)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/fegr2o23u4d/n900fonts.rar

just put the 4 font files:
nosnb.ttf
nosnr.ttf
nosns.ttf
nscnr.ttf

into:
usr/share/fonts/nokia

reboot phone and reapply any widgets back to the homescreen if they are missing


the 4 font files apply to different parts of the phone,
you could have 4 different fonts running at once,
on different parts of the phone if you wanted

here ive just included 4 copies of the same font 'alba'
and renamed them to the above names

to apply a different font you must reapply the nokia original font first, (there included here) and reboot phone,
then apply your font files and reboot





(turned out to be just as easy as its been over the past 10 years using symbian, just a shame this guide wasnt available to me before now, with out all the warnings about not messing with MY phones files incase i brick my device 'which i do regularly anyway!' and without all the techno babble talk that seems to go way over my head!)

how can i put fonts in that folder? Im beginner with x terminal...thanks.

You should use the MV (move) command, remember to use the whole path combined with the filename. I believe the command would be:

mv filename.ttf /usr/share/fonts/nokia