well I know it should work with budgie desktop settings but here I have issues : many fonts are just wrongly displayed in the selector ( Fira, IBM plex… ) and many others won’t be applied ( ubuntu condensed, too bad it’s of my favorite… well I usually rely on condensed fonts. )
…those little squares will also appear with other fonts ( Fira, Cabin… )
Note, I also encountered same kinds of trouble on « regular » Ubuntu installations since 22.04, there are known problems with variable fonts but upstream seems not to care.
It’s probably a mutter issue.
So today on 24.04 Budgie desktop environment, trying to set « Ubuntu Sans Condensed Regular » does not do much… only place you may notice the change is some title bars ( I’d say older gtk ones ).
While doing so, you’ll notice the window size and proportion change as if the font was applied but the font itself is (almost) nowhere displayed.
Another issue while trying to set a global style of font in Budgie are desktop icons and Nemo, they have their own keys for fonts in dconf, so have to be set manually.
Does anyone have some hint or clue about about all these quirks ?
Zoom in, future stuff … 25.04 + budgie wayland. This though shows how to change the font on client side decoration windows where font values are not taken by the global setting but from the theme. This shows how to override a theme preset.
in 24.04 - the interface font for GTK apps with standard decorations is set via budgie-desktop-settings.
All CSD based apps you are forced to use the theme font/weight/size/weight as per the theme designer. You can override the theme designer by that css tweak
You cannot use Condensed fonts in 24.04 for titlebars.
You will be able to use Condensed fonts in 25.04 and later with the wayland version of budgie-desktop
