Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?
A good terminal font to use is Bitstream Mono or Andale Mono. The former can
be obtained through the Debian archive while the latter can be obtained by
searching for andale.ttf in your favourite search engine.
On Sunday 04 January 2004 02:19 pm, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:47:50PM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> > If anyone knows of a way to fix this in the Debian KDE packages, I'd
> > be very interested to hear it. Also, does anyone have any idea how to
> > fix the font problems in konsole ( most of the fonts look ugly, the
> > "linux" and "unicode" fonts don't work, selecting a custom font brings
> > up very few fonts to choose from etc. ), please share it.
>
> For konsole you need to:
>
> 1. Setup fontconfig properly (enable bitmap fonts)
> 2. Install xfonts-konsole
> 3. Run fc-cache -f
> 4. Restart KDE
>
> I'm not sure what the "Unicode" font is supposed to do but selecting it
> does change my font here. Konsole only can use monospace fonts which
> there aren't many of, so you may have to get fonts on your own for the
> Custom selection to show many. I have a lot of windows fonts so I see 19
> fonts in Konsole's Custom box. Note that I have over 1000 fonts total
> (about 650 of them are windows fonts), so not very many work with konsole.
>
> Chris
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