Monospace fonts not working

[oriolCleverpy]

Type: Bug

I am changing the editor and terminal font for VictorMono NFM and was always working fine. Yesterday, without any reason, (I don't know if there was an update on VSC for Ubuntu) I am getting the monospace font error with any font that I use.

VS Code version: Code 1.95.1 (65edc4939843c90c34d61f4ce11704f09d3e5cb6, 2024-10-31T05:14:54.222Z) OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-48-generic snap Modes:

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[oriolCleverpy]

Found a command that helped me to fix that:

ln -s ~/.local/share/fonts ~/snap/code/174/.local/share/fonts

y used the 174 number and the 173, because are my 2 folders inside code folder with the same contents. Must check the route because it may change but worked fine

[Pedro-Magalhaes]

Had the same problem and the symbolic link resolved for me too. FYI: I use the zsh terminal with powerlevel10k and my 'Font Family' is set to: 'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono', 'Droid Sans Mono', 'monospace', monospace

[slavos1]

For those using atuin -- I had to do the same for the atuin folder created in the snap (hence "losing" my atuin history):

# better to backup your DB, just in case
tar -czf atuin-bak.tar.gz ~/.local/share/atuin
rm -rf ~/snap/code/current/.local/share/atuin/
ln -s ~/.local/share/atuin ~/snap/code/current/.local/share/atuin

And restart your VS Code -- you should now see your full atuin history again in the terminal as before.

FYI @ellie

[wanermiranda]

Same here in but in Windows. After the latest update (applied today Nov 11 2024) , all nerdfonts Mono and not Mono stopped working.

[iamaakashbasnet]

Before it used to work fine, why the symlinks broke for the newer updates?

[wanermiranda]

In my case, Windows 11. Had them removed, download the zip package with the fonts and installed them via UI. Open and closed the VSCode and started working again. Issue seems to be system wide somehow.

It was working on pwsh7 while not in vscode, until certain point, where it also stopped working for pwsh7 on terminal.