Lucidatypewriter/Bitmap Fonts in Ubuntu

By default Ubuntu comes with bitmap fonts disabled in the system. Since lucidatypewriter is a bitmap font, it doesn’t show up in the font chooser windows. You need to enable bitmap fonts to use it.

To enable bitmap fonts, follow the below procedure.

1. Run the below command in the terminal, and choose “YES” when it asks for “enable bitmap fonts?” question. Choose the defaults for other queries.

        $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-confg

2. Once you do the above step, you should regenerate the font cache using below command.

        $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

3. Now you should logout and re-login. Now bitmap fonts start appearing on the font chooser dialog boxes.