Non-antialiased fonts in gnome-terminal
Linux has supported antialiased fonts for quite some years now, but the default (antialiased) terminal fonts have always bothered me. By default, GNOME Terminal 2.x uses an antialiased Monospace or Fixed font:

I antialiasing makes terminals looks ugly. I much prefer the font as used by xterm, or GNOME Terminal 1.x. Back when Linux didn’t have good support for antialiased fonts, GNOME Terminal 1.x used a non-antialiased (bitmap) version of the Fixed font.
Luckily, I can use bitmap fonts in all fontconfig-enabled applications (which automatically includes all GTK and Qt applications). Although the “Fixed” font is antialiased now, the “MiscFixed” font is not - in fact it’s exactly the same as the old non-antialiased “Fixed” font. After using the MiscFixed font, by terminal now looks like this:

Not only does this look nicer, it also makes GNOME Terminal faster.
It’s quite a hassle to find this font. I don’t remember where I got this font from. So for my convenience, as well as for the convenience of the reader, I have attached the font to this blog post:
MiscFixed font - download here
Extract the contents to ~/.fonts, restart your terminal, and select “MiscFixed” as font in your terminal.
