What is that beautiful tty font?

xiaweitang · 2010-01-28 22:09:41

Personally I think the bitmap font in tty is very good. What is name of that font and how can I use it in X applications, e.g. urxvt and emacs?

keenerd · 2010-01-28 22:38:39

It is in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/. Probably default8x16.psfu.gz.

You'll need to convert it to a format X can use. FontForge can do that.

xiaweitang · 2010-01-29 01:04:32

keenerd wrote:

It is in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/. Probably default8x16.psfu.gz.
You'll need to convert it to a format X can use. FontForge can do that.

Fontforge didn't recognize the format .psfu.gz or psfu

keenerd · 2010-01-29 02:08:15

I swear there was something that said it could. Don't trust half of what you read, I guess.

xmbdfed is in the AUR and bdftopcf is part of the xorg-font-utils package.

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