Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 13:47:04 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 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.
Lucida bright is a font I associate with Latex (Tex). I doubt it is
suitable for pure console use. There are contraints which the console
imposes which, even with a framebuffer, limit the type of font which
can be used. When it comes to it, a terminal under X does much better.
> 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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