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Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> 2009/11/6 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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>> I think what he is asking is this, how can we know what they look like |
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>> BEFORE we change it? I looked in the directory and I don't recognize |
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>> most of the fonts. Some of them doesn't make sense as far as the name. |
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>> I even wonder if some of them are not even English. I would hate to set |
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>> that to something and then not be able to read it. |
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>> Could one do a google image search? o_O |
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> He asked if there is a way to test/preview the font without rebooting. |
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> So using the init script is the solution. |
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> Maybe playing around with setfont manually can help to test the fonts |
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> without setting them globally, this would avoid messing things up. |
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The setfont command seems to do the job nicely. If ctrl + f1-6 to another TTY and experiment with |
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set font, it should set the font permanently. Also there are *.README files in the consolefonts |
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directory, worth a read. |
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Beau Henderson |
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