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waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote |
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> > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been |
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> > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. |
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> > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without |
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> > going the whole hog. |
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> Speaking of console fonts, is there a 24 pixel-wide font available, |
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> or are there font-editors that can easily double or triple the width |
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> of a font? I have a 1920x1080 monitor, and 8-pixel-wide fonts are |
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> unreadable with a 240-column-wide display. I currently have... |
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> consolefont="sun12x22" |
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> ...in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. Remember to run... |
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> rc-update add consolefont boot |
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> ...to make it take effect. That's 160 columns across, and readable, |
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> but still too much. A 24-pixel-wide font would give me 80 columns |
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> across. |
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Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font needs |
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some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system X was |
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already installed before I installed media-fonts/terminus-font. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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