gnome-terminal — misc-fixed fonts — Fedora 14(−21?)

Getting gnome-terminal to use misc-fixed fonts in Fedora 14
(ie turn off anti-aliased fonts)

I am told that using the first part of this recipe also works for Fedora 21 with xfce

Using the fixed font on Fedora 14 takes a little more effort than the method described by Dave Fumberger

• First, the relevant font rpm is not installed by default, so we need to install it

  sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-misc
  

• Second, in addition to accepting family fixed, we need to search the appropriate directory, so our ~/.fonts.conf file needs to look like this:

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
  <fontconfig>
    <dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc</dir>
    <selectfont>
      <acceptfont>
        <pattern>
          <patelt name="family">
            <string>fixed</string>
          </patelt>
        </pattern>
      </acceptfont>
    </selectfont>
  </fontconfig>
  

• after that, run

  fc-cache -fv
  

  to make the fonts available to gnome. You may need to log out and log in again before they are visible in menus, but I don’t think it’s necessary to run fc-cache as root unless you are doing this for all users, in which case the .fonts.conf should go in /etc/fonts/conf.d

• Finally, select Edit ⇒ Profile Preferences in gnome-terminal and use the Font widget to select Family: Fixed, Style: SemiCondensed, Size: 10.

Recorded: 2011-02-21 (this version uploaded 2016-10-20)

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