I am working on RedHat RHEL5. I want to change the font in GVIM.

The only font format that my GVIM accepts is

```
*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-*

```

It refuses to use `Courier\ New` or `Courier_New` names. 

The default font is ugly and I wanted to change it to something prettier, like `monospace` font that I use in my terminal, but `xfontsel` does not show his font. `set guifont=*` neither works.

My questions are:

1. How to "convince" GVIM to accept other system fonts
2. Or, how to install additional fonts so they can be delivered to GVIM in `-*-*-*-` Morse code format

**Edit**

`:set guifont=*` gives error:

```
Font "*" is not fixed-width
Invalid font(s): guifont=*

```

To make the font selectable with `xfontsel`, additionally I had to use [this trick](http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_install_and_use_X-Windows_fonts):

```
xset fp+ ~/.fonts/  # maybe unnecessary
xset fp rehash
fc-cache

```