Nerd fonts could not be applied to the WSL powershell terminal

Background

• WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux :()
• Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2
• Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8370C CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.79 GHz
• RAM: 32 GB
• Ubuntu 24.04.1
• This is dev box and logged in to using remote desktop

Steps

• Cloned Nerd Font git repo
• Used install.sh to install Monofur Nerd font
• /usr/share/fonts/usr/local/share/fonts/home/username/.local/share/fonts and /home/username/.fonts/ have following directories

drwxr-xr-x  NerdFontsdrwxr-xr-x  monofur-nerd-fontdrwxr-xr-x  monofur-nerd-font-monodrwxr-xr-x  monofur-nerd-font-propo

• fc-list command output is as follows

fc-list | grep "Nerd Font"/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Italic/usr/share/fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Bold/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Regular/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Italic/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Italic/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/usr/share/fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/home/username/.local/share/fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Bold/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Bold/home/username/.local/share/fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Regular/home/username/.fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Regular/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Italic/home/username/.fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Bold/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Italic/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Italic/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Italic/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Regular/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Regular/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/usr/share/fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/home/username/.local/share/fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Italic/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Regular/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Regular/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-propo/MonofurNerdFontPropo-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Propo:style=Bold/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Italic.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Italic/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/usr/local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Bold/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Regular/home/username/.fonts/NerdFonts/MonofurNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Regular/usr/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font/MonofurNerdFont-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font:style=Bold/home/username/.fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Bold/home/username/.local/share/fonts/monofur-nerd-font-mono/MonofurNerdFontMono-Bold.ttf: Monofur Nerd Font Mono:style=Bold

• both sudo fc-cache -fv and fc-cache -fv executed successfully.

Problem

Not able to change the font of command line the font does not show up in the settings

Works perfectly on WSL with Ubuntu 24.04.