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Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

Have you tried Lucida bright yet? When I was working my employer had a presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to improve clarity of writing. Me never having seen anything, I don't know how good that font is. 

On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote:


Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:36:05
From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!
Resent-Date: Mon,  5 Sep 2016 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote:


On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie?
I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with
"tiny" little fonts is extremely painful.
I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results.


I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc

alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6"
alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14"
alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10"
alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12"
alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14"
alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16"


Every time I use the console (which is a lot) I appreciate the existence
of the Terminus font and could not do without it.


$ cat /etc/default/console-setup
# CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON

# Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.

ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"

CHARMAP="UTF-8"

CODESET="Lat15"
# Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen

VIDEOMODE=

# The following is an example how to use a braille font
# FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
FONTFACE="Terminus"
FONTSIZE="10x20"
$

That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will
clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull)
if you are someone who looks at booting messages.

I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the


console-setup-linux provides the .psf files. In all his "playing about"
I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with

 dpkg-reconfigure console-setup


case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts
installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use
whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear.
However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something
different.

Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW.


Thanks for the detail. Something to try in the future.




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