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skreddy

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[SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

I installed the adobe source code pro fonts from repos.  I read the fonts page of wiki, but I cannot understand half of all the unicode and lat2 stuff. I want to use some nice font for the console instead of the default ugly one which is too bold and not smooth like sans fonts.
Can someone just simply explain how I can do that?

Last edited by skreddy (2017-06-25 05:51:16)

dockland

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

I installed the adobe source code pro fonts from repos.  I read the fonts page of wiki, but I cannot understand half of all the unicode and lat2 stuff. I want to use some nice font for the console instead of the default ugly one which is too bold and not smooth like sans fonts.
Can someone just simply explain how I can do that?

Do what? Change terminal font?

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x00x90

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Registered: 2017-06-24

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Use setfont

press ctrl +alt+F1 to go to the console, login if you are not logged in,  type setfont [path to your font.gz]
eg: setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat7-14.psfu.gz

done

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Fonts#Console_fonts the first note

Note: This section is about the Linux console. For alternative console solutions offering more features (full Unicode fonts, modern graphics adapters etc.), see fbterm, KMSCON or similar projects.

In this case "full Unicode fonts" means any font not in the PC Screen Fonts format such as those supplied by the adobe-source-code-pro-fonts package.

Docbroke

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Registered: 2015-06-13

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Get terminus-font, that's the best you can get in regular console, or change default console to something like kmscon,fbterm etc., to use any unicode font of your choice.

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skreddy

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Registered: 2017-06-05

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Do what? Change terminal font?

Yes, But the Virtual console font, not the emulator one.

skreddy

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Get terminus-font, that's the best you can get in regular console, or change default console to something like kmscon,fbterm etc., to use any unicode font of your choice.

I changed the default console to kmscon. But Can I use the source code pro or am I still restricted to the unicode fonts. If so, can you tell me hwo to uuse the terminus font? The wiki or the man are of not much help.

Last edited by skreddy (2017-06-25 05:48:03)

skreddy

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Use setfont

Yes, I got that from the wiki, but I wanted to use some monospace font like source code or something else like sans. I am trying to go full console with no X. I wanted to use some nice font especially to read pdf files.

the font is apparently not for console. So, I am trying to use kmscon to try the other fonts.

Docbroke

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Read the man page for kmscon and archwiki page.

kmscone --font-name <your_font> --font-size <size> 

you can put this in /etc/kmscon/kmscon.conf

font-name=Inconsolata
font-size=18

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skreddy

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Re: [SOLVED] How to use adobe source code pro as the console fonts?

Read the man page for kmscon and archwiki page.

kmscone --font-name <your_font> --font-size <size> 

you can put this in /etc/kmscon/kmscon.conf

font-name=Inconsolata
font-size=18

Thank you. This is working. The tty is a lot prettier and readable now.