I thought this might help someone else, it's been annoying me for far too long now.
I'm quite enamoured with the fonts that xterm uses, but gnome-terminal does some stuff that I'd like from my xterms. Alas gnome-terminal was insistent on anti-aliasing a TrueType fixed-width font. Far too slow and unreadable for me. I'd found a bunch of pages instructing me to unpack the .pcf files into my .fonts directory and everything would be fine. That didn't work for me. Anyway, I've just worked this out. The trouble is that fontconfig on Ubuntu is configured to ignore my beautiful bitmap fonts. There's a file called /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf which has the express purpose of disabling those fonts. Anyway, if you open that up and comment it out, or remove it by whatever means you desire, then you can follow the myriad sets of instructions on how to get back your old-skool fonts. Hope that helps someone. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
