Re: What happened to consolechars?
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:01:58AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +0000, Phil Requirements wrote:
> > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command
> > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown.
> > >
> > > Now the command is gone and apt-cache search consolechars returns
> > > nothing.
> >
> > I don't know about consolechars.
>
> That's probably because Debian switched back from console-tools to
> kbd. console-tools was unmaintained and kbd supported more stuff.
> You want to use "setfont", or just edit /etc/default/console-setup
> and restart console-setup. Note that setfont /is/ consolechars,
> but supports larger fonts. I'm using a 16×32 font with the following
> settings:
>
Problem solved BUT after I changed
CHARMAP=ISO-8859-15 to
> CHARMAP="UTF-8"
and CODESET=Lat2 to
> CODESET="Uni2"
I left the following two entries unchanged as they were as shown
> FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
> FONTSIZE="32x16"
>
Then I ran setfont and the displayed fonts shrank to almost invisible
size but the lines and arrows indicating threads in mutt were correct.
In the past I struggled with miniscule font sizes and learned how to
correct this by setting the display size in grub. A reboot recovered
my preferred font sizes while preserving the new correct lines and
arrows indicating threads in mutt.
xterm was not installed so I installed it. When I ran xterm it aborted
saying DISPLAY was not set. Since everything works correctly now I
leave it as is.
> i.e. /etc/default/console-setup is where setfont gets the font
> information from; you don't need to run it by hand yourself. This
> is actually a nice improvement over the previous methods.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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