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Re: Consolechars Question



On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:13:39PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font
> > and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters.  The final
> > font is very readable but when I start mutt the symbols used to indicate
> > threading of messages are weird.
> > 
> > I installed console-tools and found the command consolechars -d changes
> > to a font simple symbols to indicate threading.
> > 
> > I don't mind resetting the font after each bootup but I am curious.
> > What font am I using?  Is there a way of displaying the available
> > English fonts?
> 
> $ show consolefont
> 
> .. may be what you are looking for?
> 
> CJ
> 
maybe, but I have no such command.  locale says LANG=en_US.UTF-8, I
didn't think to check the output of locale before issuing the
consolechars -d command.  I will do so after the next reboot.  I
normally shutdown the system every night.

Tom
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