Using misc-fixed fonts in gnome-terminal

As a programmer I find the anti aliased fonts in gnome-terminal really irritating.

I wanted to use the default font in xterm (from the misc-fixed family) but found it dosen’t get enabled by default because it’s a bitmap font.

This can be overridden by editing/creating ~/.fonts.conf and placing the following in it


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


Then run

sudo fc-cache -fv

to update the font cache

You should see it report finding fonts in the misc dir

/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 49 fonts, 0 dirs


Restart gnome (Ctrl-Shift-Backspace).

The font should then be selectable under the ‘Fixed’ Family.
Choose ‘SemiCondensed’ as the font style.

The result