How do I get a sane font in Konsole?
It’s a known problem that Konsole’s default font looks quite ugly on many FreeBSD installations due to problems with Qt’s font substitution routines. A viable workaround is installing an alternative and readable fixed-width font called “Neep”: • Install the jmk-x11-fonts port (i.e. by running cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/jmk-x11-fonts; make && make install, or by using portupgrade or pkg_add). • Make sure that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk is in your X server’s font path. For a first test, simply run xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk; xset fp rehash to add that font path to your current display. If everything turns out to be working nicely, you should add that font path permanently, either by adding a corresponding FontPath entry to your XF86Config file (usually found in /etc/X11/ or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/), or by adding the above command to your ~/.xinitrc file. • Now, start a new Konsole, and navigate to the font selection dialog by clicking Settings -> Font -> Custom. Note that for the f
