[NBLUG/talk] console fonts

ME dugan at passwall.com
Wed Mar 26 08:51:00 PST 2003


At least 2 ways:

The command you want is probably consolechars. If you try typing it as
"root" and find it is not installed (or can't find a man page on it) then
you may need to install it as a package.

The fonts to choose from on my Debian Box are in /usr/share/consolefonts/
and any of these can be used as args to consolfonts to change console
fonts.

Also, you can use a mod with lilo at boot time to prompt ior different
fonts supported by your video card "native":
The option is called "vga" and is placed in /etc/lilo.conf with eg:
vga=ask
then on boot it will prompt you for a font to try out on console.
(Don't forget, ifyou modify /etc/lilo.conf, you need to re-run "lilo" as
root to install those changes.)

Want some fun? I set a up a script on a laptop that shifts the console
fonts. If you have these console fonts installed, you can play with this
script and see what you think. :-)


(This is one line, or should be, typed from a bash based shell.)

while true ; do ( consolechars --font=default8x16.psf.gz ; sleep 1 ;
consolechars --font=gr737-9x16-medieval.psf.gz  ; sleep 1 ; consolechars
--font=altb-8x16.psf.gz ; sleep 1; consolechars --font=t.psf.gz  ; sleep 1
) ; done >> /dev/null 2>&1 &

If you dont have those fonts, then the above "program" won't work. (To
stop the above "program" just press "fg" and then press control-c in the
same shell the above line was typed. (There are other ways.)

However, if you are talking about X-terms and Terms in "X", then some
terminals support multiple fonts as a part of the properties/options
section.

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Joseph McCarty said:
> How does one get smaller console fonts?  Like in the networking lab RH
> drives on 2nd floor Magini Hall at the JC.







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