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

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Published on 2010-04-13T01:29:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 1:33 UTC
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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?

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