Bug#1069791: console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels
Joseph Carter, le dim. 28 avril 2024 16:21:06 -0700, a ecrit: > Even so, could you try to include a DejaVuSansMonoBold font as well? It's also included in my change. Samuel
Bug#1069791: console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels
My apologies for missing the existing bug scrolling through the list. There were a lot of them to sift through. I may see if some of them have been incidentally fixed as far as I can tell. I understand the eventual goal for the kernel folks is to rid themselves of CONFIG_VT all together, so I realize this is a stopgap. Even so, could you try to include a DejaVuSansMonoBold font as well? I'd appreciate it if it's possible as I can personally read a smaller heavyweight font and it'd really help debugging servers with my portable display. Obviously the long-term solution is some userspace alternative that does the same thing probably using cage and some restricted tabbed terminal maybe? Hmm. I dunno if that's even on anybody's radar any sooner than forky. Joseph On Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 10:11, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Control: forcemerge -1 816111 > > Hello, > > T. Joseph Carter, le mer. 24 avril 2024 13:25:22 -0700, a ecrit: >> Linux kernel 6.9+ will support larger font sizes for HiDPI screens. This >> is probably aimed at "more than 4k" monitors, but for accessibility >> reasons it would be really useful to have larger sizes available sooner >> for those of us already have 4k sorts of screens. > > Yes, that was the points in adding the support in the kernel :) > >> Perhaps this might best be done by putting those huge-sized fonts in an >> appropriately named -huge fonts package? I'll leave the implementation >> details to you, this is just a request for the fonts to be created. > > We already had the request in #816111, also #595696 was about possibly > generalizing to using rasterized fonts. > > I gave a try at converting terminus.ttf to bdf with otf2bdf: > > otf2bdf -c C -p 32 -r 72 > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus/TerminusTTF-4.46.0.ttf > > /tmp/terminus.bdf > bdf2psf --fb /tmp/terminus.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents > ascii.set 256 /tmp/terminus.psf /tmp/terminus.sfm > > but the baseline is not coherent. Using DejaVuSansMono seems to be > working better: > > otf2bdf -c C -p 32 -r 100 > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf > > /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.bdf > bdf2psf --fb --width 32 /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.bdf > /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents ascii.set 256 > /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.psf /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.sfm > > (I'm adding a new --width parameter to bdf2psf to specify the expected > width since AVERAGE_WIDTH as set by otf2bdf doesn't really tell) > > Samuel
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Processing control commands: > forcemerge -1 816111 Bug #1069791 [console-setup] console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels Bug #816111 [console-setup] Larger font variants for HiDPI displays Bug #816111 [console-setup] Larger font variants for HiDPI displays Merged 816111 1069791 -- 1069791: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069791 816111: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816111 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
Processed: Re: Bug#1069791: console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels
Processing control commands: > forcemerge -1 816111 Bug #1069791 [console-setup] console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels Bug #1069791 [console-setup] console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels Marked as found in versions console-setup/1.137. Bug #816111 [console-setup] Larger font variants for HiDPI displays Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' 864320 was blocked by: 595696 816111 864320 was not blocking any bugs. Removed blocking bug(s) of 864320: 816111 Marked as found in versions console-setup/1.226. Merged 816111 1069791 -- 1069791: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069791 816111: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816111 864320: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864320 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
Bug#1069791: console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels
Control: forcemerge -1 816111 Hello, T. Joseph Carter, le mer. 24 avril 2024 13:25:22 -0700, a ecrit: > Linux kernel 6.9+ will support larger font sizes for HiDPI screens. This > is probably aimed at "more than 4k" monitors, but for accessibility > reasons it would be really useful to have larger sizes available sooner > for those of us already have 4k sorts of screens. Yes, that was the points in adding the support in the kernel :) > Perhaps this might best be done by putting those huge-sized fonts in an > appropriately named -huge fonts package? I'll leave the implementation > details to you, this is just a request for the fonts to be created. We already had the request in #816111, also #595696 was about possibly generalizing to using rasterized fonts. I gave a try at converting terminus.ttf to bdf with otf2bdf: otf2bdf -c C -p 32 -r 72 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus/TerminusTTF-4.46.0.ttf > /tmp/terminus.bdf bdf2psf --fb /tmp/terminus.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents ascii.set 256 /tmp/terminus.psf /tmp/terminus.sfm but the baseline is not coherent. Using DejaVuSansMono seems to be working better: otf2bdf -c C -p 32 -r 100 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf > /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.bdf bdf2psf --fb --width 32 /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents ascii.set 256 /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.psf /tmp/DejaVuSansMono.sfm (I'm adding a new --width parameter to bdf2psf to specify the expected width since AVERAGE_WIDTH as set by otf2bdf doesn't really tell) Samuel
Bug#1069791: console-setup: Build larger console fonts for HiDPI/accessibility with future 6.9 kernels
Package: console-setup Version: 1.226 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Linux kernel 6.9+ will support larger font sizes for HiDPI screens. This is probably aimed at "more than 4k" monitors, but for accessibility reasons it would be really useful to have larger sizes available sooner for those of us already have 4k sorts of screens. Perhaps this might best be done by putting those huge-sized fonts in an appropriately named -huge fonts package? I'll leave the implementation details to you, this is just a request for the fonts to be created. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.7.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.226 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.86 ii keyboard-configuration 1.226 ii xkb-data2.41-2 console-setup recommends no packages. Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales2.37-18 ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.09-1 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.86 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-7 ii xkb-data2.41-2 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.66 ii kbd 2.6.4-2 ii keyboard-configuration 1.226 console-setup-linux suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup is related to: pn console-common pn console-data pn console-tools pn gnome-control-center ii kbd 2.6.4-2 ii systemd 255.4-1+b1 -- debconf information: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true console-setup/guess_font: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true console-setup/fontsize: 16x32 * console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages keyboard-configuration/optionscode: console-setup/framebuffer_only: keyboard-configuration/layout: console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16x32 (framebuffer only) * console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/other: keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key PC keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch * console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16x32 (framebuffer only) keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: keyboard-configuration/variantcode: * keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US) console-setup/use_system_font: keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15 * console-setup/fontface47: TerminusBold keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
