This is not necessary on the SuSE machines which have nice terminal fonts installed.

Decent terminal/editing font

While the RH9 machines have beautiful fonts in general, I couldn’t find a decent and big terminal font suitable for large monitors. I have one set up now. If you want the same as mine, do:
mkdir ~/.fonts && cp -R ~iam23/.fonts/*.ttf ~/.fonts
Then try running fc-cache and/or restarting the X-server so that the new fonts are recognised.

Then at least GTK2 and QT3 apps should be able to use the fonts. I use “Bitstream Vera Sans Mono” size 14 in gnome-terminal. And beautiful it is too. To use the same font in gvim, use:
set gfn=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 14
in your ~/.vimrc file and use the latest version of vim found in /nfs/home1/iam23/bin/i386/vim62/bin

Other problems unresolved

Sadly not all the applications in RH9 are that up-to-date and I can’t get GTK1 applications (eg: the version of galeon we have) to have decent sized menus no matter what I put in ~/.gtkrc.mine. I could get Mozilla to behave by specifying -dpi 120 when starting the X-server. Unfortunately most applications seem to ignore this setting. With terminals, my editor and konqueror behaving I think I’ll just wait until everything uses one of the new toolkits.