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Working under the console is useful and sometimes necessary, but on my 15.1" laptop with resolution 1366x768, the font is too small. I tried changing the resolution to 1024x720 or 800x600, but then the whole display looks ugly. Therefore I decided that the best solution is to choose a big console font.
I looked into /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts, and it seems that the largest standard size is 8x16. There is a notable exception though, namely sun12x22, but unfortunately I don't like it. Where can I find more console fonts? Or is there an easy way to make one myself, say, by converting an existing ttf to a psfu one or what? I know that the console fonts only support monochrome, and without anti-aliasing and hinting the TTF font can look really bad, but it's worth trying after all.
Last edited by xiaq (2011-03-06 08:37:57)
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Check out terminus (community): it comes in a good range of sizes...
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Check out terminus (community): it comes in a good range of sizes...
Thanks a lot. But I can't use the installed fonts with setfont. Any hints?
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jasonwryan wrote:Check out terminus (community): it comes in a good range of sizes...
Thanks a lot. But I can't use the installed fonts with setfont. Any hints?
Oh I was wrong. I can use them with setfont. Thanks!
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Can't use? What does that mean? They don't appear? A little specificity goes a long way...
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Cool. Please mark your thread as [Solved]
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setfont works as expected here e.g.
setfont ter-p24n.psf.gz
What response are you getting, if any?
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Can't use? What does that mean? They don't appear? A little specificity goes a long way...
I cd-ed into /usr/share/fonts/local and tried setfont there, since that's what pacman told me terminus gets installed to. And setfont failed with "bad input file size".
However I soon noticed that /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts is also populated with the terminus fonts. Running setfont there turned out fine. The font looks nice. I'll mark the thread [solved] and a few more thanks
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You don't need to cd - setfont looks in that dir by default.
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You don't need to cd - setfont looks in that dir by default.
I knew that I was mistaken when pacman told me the fonts get installed to somewhere else. I also noted that the version in /usr/share/fonts/local is in pcf format, which is not supported by the console.
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It warns you about the location because xorg does not by default look in /usr/share/fonts/local , so you have to add it to the fontpath explicitly to use terminus in X
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