Re: setting gnome-terminal font

[Ryan Lovett <ryan@ocf.berkeley.edu>]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:35:53PM +0300, Mpiktas wrote:
> I have one problem with selecting one specific font in gnome-terminal quite 
> for a long time. It is my favorite monospace font:

I had the same problem which a discussion on the fontconfig list resolved.
fontconfig's list archive seems to be down at the moment otherwise I'd send you
a link. Here's the relevant bit:

 On Thu, 01 May 2003, Keith Packard wrote:
 >Around 22 o'clock on Apr 30, Ryan Lovett wrote:
 >> For example when I have 'Fixed 10' selected in gnome-terminal, any of the
 >> above fonts will be used over 6x13 (where the above fonts also follow some
 >> sort of pecking order).
 >
 >6x13 is a semicondensed face, so you'll have to make sure you request it by
 >setting the width to semicondensed instead of normal.  You can do this in
 >your .fonts.conf with:
 >
 >        <match target="pattern">
 >               <!-- match family "fixed" -->
 >                <test name="family">
 >                        <string>fixed</string>
 >                </test>
 >               <!-- make sure width wasn't specified -->
 >                <test name="width" qual="all">
 >                        <int>-1</int>
 >                </test>
 >               <!-- set the width to semicondensed to prefer 6x13 -->
 >                <edit name="width">
 >                        <const>semicondensed</const>
 >                </edit>
 >        </match>
                                                                                
 This works great with current gnome-terminal (Debian libvte4=0.11.0-2) when
 VTE_USE_DRAW=0. It also works fine with other GNOME2 apps.
                                                                                
 Thanks!
 Ryan


My font setting in gnome-terminal is Fixed 10 and the terminal displays the
familiar 'fixed' font, a.k.a.
  -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-13

Ryan