Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote
>
> > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font
> > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system
> > X was already installed before I installed
> > media-fonts/terminus-font.
>
>   I couldn't get anything less than 120 columns across.  Here's the
> scriptlet "listres" I used to check all the terminal fonts.  Note that
> it does *NOT* begin with #!/bin/bash and is not chmod'ed executable.
> That's because COLUMNS and LINES are not environment variables, but
> are shell variables.  So they are not inherited by a deeper script.
>
> cd /usr/share/consolefonts
> for cfont in ter-*
> do
>    setfont ${cfont}
>    echo "${cfont} ${COLUMNS} ${LINES}"
> done
> cd
>
>   I had to "source" it to stay within the same shell level...
>
>  . listres > /dev/shm/screensize.txt

That's because the fonts hight is twice its width. The biggest terminus
font size is 32px. That's in fact a 16x32 matrix. With a screen size of
1920x1080 that will give you 120 columns and 33 lines.

It seems that there is no bigger console font available. 

Sorry, I really didn't considered that well enough before I made my 
suggestion. If I would have used my brain I would have realized that
I'm using ter-132n and have 240 columns and 67 lines on my UHD screen
and that this font size would give you 120x33 chars on your screen.

My screen is huge (32") and so the font is readable from my working 
distance. Usually I only work on the console when I make backups in 
single user mode or when I'm testing different options for the GPU 
driver. So I can live with that fontsize. But nevertheless I would also
appreciate a somewhat bigger font.

Just now I searched for BDF in the package DB (eix bdf) and found some
tools for converting X fonts to console fonts. I never used these tools
and so cannot say if they are helpful for you. If you achieve good
results with these programs please give me a hint. 

--
Regards
wabe