d.font does not change default font in monitors

[veroandreo]

d.font -l and d.fontlist give 439 possibilities for fonts. However,

d.font font="whatever_font_from_the_439_items_list" 

does not change font setting in monitors, nor raise any error/warning. The only error appears when trying to set, for example, font=romanp which is indeed listed as option in d.font manual page (https://grass.osgeo.org/grass73/manuals/d.font.html).

Whatever font I choose, monitors keep using default roman, which IMHO looks awful and makes that the output of d.text or d.vect.thematic, for example, look terrible, too.

The only way I found to effectively change font for d.mon was with: 

export GRASS_FONT="sans"

I use fedora 23, grass trunk r68780.

[annakrat]

d.font calls D_font but that affects only the font in that process.

[veroandreo]

Replying to annakrat:

d.font calls D_font but that affects only the font in that process.

If by process you mean a particular monitor, that's the case I'm reporting. Here, what I do:

d.mon wx0
d.font font="sans"
d.text "Hello GRASS GIS"

No sans font, but the default roman. However, please try saving the wx0 monitor with "Save Display to file", something strange happens... The "Hello GRASS" part disappears and only "GIS" word remain and with a different font.

[neteler]

Probably caused by reason which leads to #3137

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[martinl]

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[veroandreo]

I still get the same behavior in freshly compiled trunk

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