I noticed the fonts in 5.5.x were updated from Oxygen to Noto, but there is a glaring omission: a monospace font in the family. Is there one but it just wasn't packaged with my distro?

openSUSE doesn't ship with one either

could be that Google doesn't yet deliver one, see https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-font ... -110100559

I see. In the link you provided it says "the monospace font instances will be available in the 1.002 release", and that was posted in April, last year. I would guess it should be available by now, non?

seems that they are available https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/, you would need to ask your distro as to why they're not packaged

are downloadable and installable https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/install/ though at least in my distro the font directory is different: truetype instead of opentype

lmk how it works

Thanks for the links to the font and installation instructions. I think I'll try these over the current monospace I'm using. Cheers!

I'm using Kubuntu 15.10 which has the package fonts-noto-cjk, which includes the noto sans mono font. After installing the package and restarting, the font shows up just fine in Font Management, but it can't be selected as a monospace font in system settings or konsole and other places. I recently read someone having the same problem that found a solution but I can't find that page anymore (which isn't necessarily on forum.kde.org)! If I select it in Kate the rendering is ugly, so I guess I don't want to use it anyway. But still, all monospace fonts should show up as such and usable in KDE, I'd hope.

The font was installed to /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/, by the way, so as opentype.

isn't cjk Chinese, Japanese, Korean ?

molecule-eye wrote:I'm using Kubuntu 15.10 which has the package fonts-noto-cjk, which includes the noto sans mono font. After installing the package and restarting, the font shows up just fine in Font Management, but it can't be selected as a monospace font in system settings or konsole and other places. I recently read someone having the same problem that found a solution but I can't find that page anymore (which isn't necessarily on forum.kde.org)! If I select it in Kate the rendering is ugly, so I guess I don't want to use it anyway. But still, all monospace fonts should show up as such and usable in KDE, I'd hope.

The font was installed to /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/, by the way, so as opentype.

There are older bug reports - an example: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229400
You could edit the Konsole/KDE config files and set the the wanted font.

Askubuntu: Monaco font in Konsole - http://askubuntu.com/questions/93805/mo ... in-konsole
Arch Forums: Select mono type font in KDE 5 system settings - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202769