Nerd Fonts is a collection of fonts for people who work with code snippets, command line, and text-based user interface applications. The fonts are also patched with additional popular icon sets like Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.
Tag: Desktop
Fedora 27 and high DPI support
I’ve recently updated my laptop to Fedora 27 and since then I had some issues with the rendering of the desktop fonts. At first, everything seemed too large and over-magnified. Resetting the desktop fonts to much smaller sizes helped a bit, but there were still random issues with different applications – Google Chrome, Skype, etc. I think these much be related to the recent improvements to high DPI support.
A few things helped me a long the way. Here are the links, just in case I’ll need to find them in the future:
- How to make Linux’s desktop look good on high-resolution displays
- Change DPI on HiDPI laptop with two external monitors
- UI font is too big when point-based font size is incorrect for the configured DPI
- ArchLinux HiDPI
- Make your Gnome title bars smaller
- Better Looking fonts For fedora
Ultimately, the things that solved my problems were the last link (installing better fonts for Fedora), and adjusting the fonts resolution from 142 dots per inch down to 96.
Firefox : The Quantum Era
“Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster” is an insightful article showcasing the big changes happening with the Firefox browser. It seems, the pendulum is swinging back towards the browser that almost became irrelevant. I think that competition is good for everyone, and it has proven much more so in the end-user applications. New ideas, new approaches, new technologies, and plenty of stimuli for the Google Chrome and other browser teams to respond with something even better.
Google Chrome color profile
My good friend and colleague Michael Stepanov has been recently annoyed by some weird color offsets on his external screen in Fedora 26. Turns out, it wasn’t the external monitor, video card, or cable issue. The problem was with the new Google Chrome and its choice of the color profile. The solution was found in this Reddit thread:
- Open new tab and type there chrome://flags
- Find option “Force color profile” and set it to “sRGB”
- Restart Chrome and enjoy blue as blue 🙂
TreeSheets – Open Source Free Form Data Organizer
TreeSheets is an Open Source cross-platform free form data organizer, which can replace a variety of other tools, like spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, project management tools, text editors, notes applications, and even small databases. It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac, and looks very interesting. Have a look at the screenshots for some of the things that it can do.