[Linux] Set monospace fonts for terminal

I don’t know why, openSUSE and Chakra, the two KDE distro seems reluctant to setup the fonts and make their Konsole available out-of-box….

If your konsole (or any other terminal emulator) cannot display text in bold, or characters cannot align correctly, you can:

  1. Set the font of konsole to monospace.
  2. If not solved, do following:

Create a file /etc/fonts/local.conf:

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <alias binding="strong">
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
   <family>Ubuntu Mono</family>
   <family>Droid Sans Mono</family>
   <family>Noto Mono</family>
   <family>Roboto Mono</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
</fontconfig>
  • binding="strong" to forcely set.
  • You can re-order the <family>‘s in <prefer>...</prefer> by your personal preference. I like DejaVu Sans Mono.

Save, then run as root:

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fc-cache -v -f

Restart your konsole, wow.

You also can use fc-match -s monospace | less to see if it took effect.