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From: Jonathan Callen <jcallen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Console fonts revisited
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 23:25:00
Message-Id: 566220BC.70403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited by wabenbau@gmail.com
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4 On 12/04/2015 02:45 PM, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
5 > waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
6 >
7 >> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
8 >>
9 >>> A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been
10 >>> working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other
11 >>> GUI. It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X
12 >>> libraries, without going the whole hog.
13 >>
14 >> Speaking of console fonts, is there a 24 pixel-wide font
15 >> available, or are there font-editors that can easily double or
16 >> triple the width of a font? I have a 1920x1080 monitor, and
17 >> 8-pixel-wide fonts are unreadable with a 240-column-wide
18 >> display. I currently have...
19 >>
20 >> consolefont="sun12x22"
21 >>
22 >> ...in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. Remember to run...
23 >>
24 >> rc-update add consolefont boot
25 >>
26 >> ...to make it take effect. That's 160 columns across, and
27 >> readable, but still too much. A 24-pixel-wide font would give
28 >> me 80 columns across.
29 >>
30 >
31 > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font
32 > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system
33 > X was already installed before I installed
34 > media-fonts/terminus-font.
35 >
36 > -- Regards wabe
37 >
38 >
39
40 media-fonts/terminus-font only requires X11 packages if USE=X is
41 enabled (adding deps on x11-apps/mkfontdir and media-fonts/encodings)
42 or USE=pcf is enabled (adding a dep on x11-apps/bdftopcf). All these
43 deps are compile-time only. USE=pcf installs the fonts used in X11,
44 USE=psf installs the fonts used on the console.
45
46 - --
47 Jonathan Callen
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console fonts revisited Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>