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#1 2008-05-30 14:04:22
- offshoreip
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Smaller tty fonts?
Hey I would like to have smaller terminal fonts (tty's). Like what SuSE does.
Anyway of doing this? Outside of X.
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#2 2008-05-30 14:08:10
- Stefan Husmann
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
What about putting VGA=773 or the like into /boot/grub/menu.lst behind the kernel line?
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#3 2008-05-30 14:10:19
- bender02
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
There's an entry in /etc/rc.conf that allows you to specify which font you want to use. So find one you like and go for it. (I like terminus.)
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#4 2008-05-30 15:37:16
- Ramses de Norre
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
Which .gz file do you load from /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts? The terminus package installed 197 of them...
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#5 2008-05-30 17:47:23
- bender02
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
There is some logic to it, but I forgot what it is 
I have
CONSOLEFONT="ter-v16b"in rc.conf (that's the usual size font); and I've also used ter-v12n at times (smaller). I think the number is size, b - bold, n - normal. Or something like that.
BTW, you can load a font instantly by 'setfont' command. So just try a couple of them out.
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#6 2008-05-31 11:54:04
- Ramses de Norre
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
There is some logic to it, but I forgot what it is
I haveCONSOLEFONT="ter-v16b"in rc.conf (that's the usual size font); and I've also used ter-v12n at times (smaller). I think the number is size, b - bold, n - normal. Or something like that.
BTW, you can load a font instantly by 'setfont' command. So just try a couple of them out.
Nice, thanks 
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#7 2008-05-31 13:28:28
- offshoreip
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
ter-v16b?
Sorry I can find anything but
t.fnt.gz in
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts
And I don't know how to keymap this from:
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/qwerty
Following this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … al_console
I'm sure this is easy once you know.
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#8 2008-05-31 13:56:10
- Ramses de Norre
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
You can install the terminus-font package for the terminus font. Or look for another one.
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#9 2008-06-01 08:24:15
- offshoreip
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Re: Smaller tty fonts?
Hey thanks all! Just had to do the menu.st VGA= trick in grub. Then just set the terminus fonts to the right size after install.
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