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.