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Kivi

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Registered: 2020-03-25

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tty login fonts acting weird (spacing seems off)

Hi!

So i made a custom login screen (/etc/issue) and i put some ascii art-text in, with figlet, so basically just banner text.
The text looks perfectly fine in my terminal emulator, and in the tty too when opened in vim, or catted out, but on the login screen, its just wrong, the figlet art is all broken
its almost like the font is not monospaced there, but then when i log in and cat it out, it looks as it should, any ideas what might cause this?

thanks!

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: tty login fonts acting weird (spacing seems off)

Post your /etc/issue if you want help.

Does `agetty --show-issue` display it properly?  `cat`ing the file isn't that meaningful of a test.  (And do you use agetty, or a different getty implementation?)

Last edited by Trilby (2020-03-30 13:21:27)

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PRochefort

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Registered: 2022-06-09

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Re: tty login fonts acting weird (spacing seems off)

I don't know if anyone has answered your question but here goes:

it's likely that you have "\" in your ascii art. Just replace every "\" by "\\" to prevent the substitution that the system is trying to do. The "\\" basically is sying "I don't want a substitution, i want the literal "\".
An ssh login does not show the same problem because it does not do substitution.

Hope this helps you out.
Thanks

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: tty login fonts acting weird (spacing seems off)

Mod note: closing this old, abandoned thread.

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