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qlem

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Registered: 2017-05-09

Posts: 29

[SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

Hi,

Since my last system upgrade, the font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly on my laptop.
/etc/vconsole.conf is unchanged.

Anyone have the same issue ?

Last edited by qlem (2020-02-28 12:18:21)

sevendogs

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From: Texas

Registered: 2016-01-24

Posts: 220

Re: [SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

Mine is larger as well but since I am running on a 34" 4k monitor, I am actually ok with it. Good to know it isn't just me though.

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doums

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Registered: 2019-03-15

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

Hi same problem here

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,928

Re: [SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64861

sevendogs

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From: Texas

Registered: 2016-01-24

Posts: 220

Re: [SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

Well there you go, thanks for the link. It's not a problem for me really so I am good with it. I just login and startx so really doesn't matter what size the font is. I do get for laptops that would be annoying though.

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

You can change it using Linux_console#Fonts

qlem

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Registered: 2017-05-09

Posts: 29

Re: [SOLVED] Font of the linux console looks bigger and ugly - Bugs ?

Thank you loqs.

Although I have a 1440p resolution on my laptop, I prefer the old school default font.
So I edited /etc/vconsole.conf:

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FONT=default8x16
FONT_MAP=cp437

Fixed!