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How can I turn off font-antialiasing only for gnome-terminal, but not for other applications?

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I'm running GNOME (gnome-session under xmonad). I want to turn off antialiasing (i.e. use monochrome mode) for fonts in gnome-terminal. But I want to retain antialiasing for other applications, like Firefox. Is this possible? Antialiasing is great and almost necessary for using Firefox or Chrome. B…

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Not sure if this actually works, but you could try to use .Xdefaults to configure this. Make a file named .Xdefaults in your home dir. Put in the following: Effects everything!!! Just find the right name, and it should work.

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