Re: Characters too small in tty

[Mike McClain <mike.junk@nethere.com>]

Howdy,

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:15:56PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Recently I installed Debian Sid.  After installing x-window-system-core, at the
> new reboot characters in tty* consoles were smaller, much too small.  And also
> in the virtual terminal within xfce graphical environment.  How can I restore
> the previous state?  Googling around did not help.

I recently experienced the same problems.

In X, try xfontsel.
On your ttys:
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup      or      setupcon

TerminusBold 20x10 is easier to read and still 38x102 char screen
reboot got larger text on all VTs   ( telinit 1 might have done it )

HTH,
Mike
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