I just installed Debian sarge on my desktop machine. First time running Linux on my desktop, though I've used it as a server for years. I pretty much got everything working, except for one pesky TrueType font that, no matter what I do, won't appear as an option in either Konsole or gnome-terminal.

The font is Sheldon Narrow, available from -- ugh, forum won't let me post a URL, but search Google for "sheldon font" and it's the first result. (That page has two fonts, one of which is available in PCF form. It's the non-PCF one I want, the very first link under "Download Files.")

I converted it to BDF, and from there to PCF. Tried putting it in ~/.fonts, then when that didn't work, in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc. I ran mkfontdir and fc-cache -v. I ran dfontmgr and registered it there, supplying a bunch of different combinations of hints.

The font does show up in xlsfonts, and I can fire up an xterm using it, so I know it's not fundamentally X-incompatible. But for the life of me I can't figure out what I have to do to make either Konsole or gnome-terminal support it.

It's my favorite font for programming -- the most legible font of its size I've found anywhere. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to use it in a modern X terminal emulator?

Thanks!

Same kind of problem here. Of course, I just want to play NetHack, and the default fonts are all horrid. I'm running Debian, so I downloaded some nice fonts in Synaptic, and they're listed in fc-list, but I can't get them to show up for use in gnome-terminal.

In particular, I'm interested in the Debian unstable package xfonts-jmk, and the neep font. It's apparently a pcf font; in any case, it's installed under /user/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, with filenames like neep-iso8859-2-08x15.pcf.gz. When I try to use dfontmgr (the graphical interface to defoma), it complains "Category unknown".

So... how do I install pcf fonts so that gnome-terminal, xfce4, and other programs will recognize them?