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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] changing console font
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:33:28
Message-Id: 6142e6140911060432m5a93d52eg5d65f488448ba0a2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] changing console font by Dale
1 2009/11/6 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
2
3 > I think what he is asking is this, how can we know what they look like
4 > BEFORE we change it?  I looked in the directory and I don't recognize
5 > most of the fonts.  Some of them doesn't make sense as far as the name.
6 > I even wonder if some of them are not even English.  I would hate to set
7 > that to something and then not be able to read it.
8 >
9 > Could one do a google image search?  o_O
10
11 He asked if there is a way to test/preview the font without rebooting.
12 So using the init script is the solution.
13
14 Maybe playing around with setfont manually can help to test the fonts
15 without setting them globally, this would avoid messing things up.
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18 Daniel Pielmeier

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Re: [gentoo-user] changing console font Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com>