> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 06:44:14 -0400
> From: David <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [blfs-support] console fonts
>
> Is there a package and/or documentation on how to change the console font and 
> what the options are?  I'd like to be able to see more text on the screen, if 
> that makes any sense.


Changing the font: 'man setfont'; 'setfont' from 'kbd' pkg.


'More text on screen': that's usually more re what framebuffer you're using;
and you can usually also specify it to load automatically via bootloader.


Here we base much on slackware (as well as b/lfs): you might want to checkout:
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* setfont:
  See the ncurses-based interactive 'try out the fonts' shell script
  'setup.consolefont' and the 'sbin/setconsolefont' script that it calls,
  via:
  http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-14.1/source/a/kbd/
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* framebuffer:
  (You don't need to run or install lilo for this - it's just a ref to
  shell-script code).
  Similar to above re setfont, look at the ncurses-based shell script
  'setup.liloconfig', that calls the shell script 'liloconfig', both avail
  via e.g.:
  http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-14.1/source/a/lilo/
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The scripts are all pretty simple at-core; there's just a lot of
'scaffolding' in them (they're used for the slackware installer).



hth,

akh



> I'm not asking about X fonts, since I haven't gotten to the point of 
> installing X yet.
> -- 


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