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Re: making console font legible [was Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?]



On 07/12/2018 07:33 PM, davidson wrote:
The point too is the font is very small on these Acer Swift when nothing is installed, and as I am a bit old I have difficults to see characters...

Have you tried experimenting with different font faces?

 # dkpg-reconfigure console-setup

Different faces permit different sizes, which you can read about[1] in

  $ man 5 console-setup

under OPTIONS, in the section on FONTFACE and FONTSIZE:

| FONTFACE and FONTSIZE

| Valid font faces are: VGA (sizes 8x8, 8x14, 8x16, 16x28 and 16x32),
| Terminus (sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32),
| TerminusBold (sizes 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32),
| TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 8x14 and 8x16), and Fixed (sizes 8x13, 8x14,
| 8x15, 8x16 and 8x18).  If however CODESET=Ethiopian, then the
| available font faces are Goha and GohaClassic, each in sizes 8x12,
| 8x14 and 8x16.

I don't know about your particular device, but FWIW the Terminus
fontface frequently proves helpful for me.


I had not. And on your advice, I have changed to terminus 10x20 and it is very fine for me now !
Thank you very much.

PC


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