Yn Mar 22, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> This leads to the question, is there any such thing as a truetype font
> for which the TTF font renderer will not try to anti-alias the text?

You probably don't want to do that: most TrueType fonts (proportional or 
monospace) are designed with anti-aliasing in mind, and generally look 
absolutely horrible with it turned off.  Many monospace TrueType fonts include 
a bitmap version that's used for specific font sizes when anti-aliasing is 
turned off because using the non-bitmap versions look so ugly.

Probably the best solution to your problem is to try to find a traditional X11 
bitmap font (I was always a fan of "fixed") and pray that gtk+ and Gedit 
support it.  Google for Consolas, Inconsolata with Linux and you might find 
some hits for those; they're pretty popular with the kids these days (myself 
included; I use them with anti-aliasing on, and they've replaced my old diehard 
bitmap choice of Monaco 9 on the Mac for coding now).

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