Bold font style change on Linux Mint

kapenike

I just swapped to Linux Mint today and everything has been going smoothly so far … the problem is that I was running obsidian theme with Courier New as bold on Windows. But when I check the bold option under Settings > Style Configurator > Default Style > Font Style - Bold it doesn’t seem to make a change to the font even after a close and re-open, restart, or font cache clear. I have made sure that the system recognizes the font … seems to just be an issue with notepad++ having reference to the bold variant of the font. That seems odd to me because it has reference to the default font face which I just installed with the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. Any words of wisdom for me?

PeterJones

@kapenike ,

The Developer only supports Notepad++ on real Windows, not on Wine. And not many here in the Community Forum use it on Wine.

On Windows, Notepad++'s bold checkbox typically works. However, when you try to pick one of the “weighted” fonts (XYZ Light or XYZ SemiBold), it doesn’t always work, depending on Settings > MISC > DirectWrite choices. I don’t know how bold works in Linux, but if it’s more like the Light or SemiBold options do on Windows, then you might need to try each of the DirectWrite settings to see if any of them improve things for you.

mathlete2

@kapenike maybe double-check the Language that you are editing the default style of; the one for Global Styles applies to plain text, and the Bold box in the Style Configurator seems to work for each language I’ve tried on my Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM.

kapenike

@PeterJones I know :/ it seems odd to me that the developers choice doesn’t include the greatest IDE to exist. Someone should fix that lol p.s. I see nothing in the app for DirectWrite

kapenike

@mathlete2 welp … you’re right. The bold works for plain text and I just need to get it to work for all languages … nice insight! I just scrolled down to Global override and checked Bold and Force bold choice for all styles

It’s kind of weird to me that default style overrode on windows but not in wine o.O oh whale. Tis fixed

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PeterJones

@kapenike said in Bold font style change on Linux Mint:

I see nothing in the app for DirectWrite

Settings> Preferences > MISC > DirectWrite Rendering Mode (or, in older versions, ☐ Use DirectWrite (May improve rendering special characters, need to restart Notepad++))