The Fedora Project’s in person events are great for picking up new applications and tips from other people. I love it when little surprises come along that make the desktop experience more pleasant. Discovering Terminator was the last time this happened. At the Fedora Talk FAD, Paul Frields took my terminal window to a higher level by suggesting switching to the Inconsolata font. It is a very pleasant fixed width font that I’m using just about everywhere now.
$ su -c 'yum install levien-inconsolata-fonts'
It turns out there are several other programming (fixed width) fonts that people love as well. They are worth checking out if you are looking for some other fixed width font options.
January 5, 2010 at 5:14 pm
@Mel
I’m not sure which font I was using before because I’ve changed it on all my systems. It was whatever is set by default for gnome-terminal.
December 31, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I’m usually a bitstream vera sans mono person, but I’m going to give Inconsolata a spin to see how I like it; it does look lovely. Thanks for the tip!
Out of curiosity, what were you using before?
(A few minutes later…)
Hm, the difference in the ‘l’ (lowercase L) and g will take a bit of getting used to. I’m liking it so far, though – we’ll see what sticks.
December 31, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I prefer DejaVu Sans Mono Book for a fixed width font.