On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:44:14AM -0400, David wrote: > 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. > I'm not asking about X fonts, since I haven't gotten to the point of > installing X yet.
Beyond what akh has already noted, ls /usr/share/consolefonts/*psfu* Any .psfu.gz font will display _some_ unicode. The display of "size" in the fonty names varies, but any -16 or x16 will be based on a character cell 16 lines high. That is usually the normal starting point, and matches most bios fonts for size. So, to get more text use a smaller font (14,12,10,8). On a modern monitor, good luck with trying to read them ;-) (For thse who have the opposite problem (text too small to read) I would suggest either using a 12x22 font, or passing a smaller screen specification in the bootargs - I sometimes use "video=800x600" with an 8x16 font on a 1600x1200 screen.) You will need to test the fonts, both to see if they look readable and acceptable, and to see if they can cope with the characters you want to read. If you have any interest in reading non-ascii characters on your screen, you also need some test text showing the things that you care about. For alphabetic languages, I have some UTF-8 examples at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/fonts/font-testing/ (I want to know that, for example, the letter a with grave, acute, and circumflex accents will display correctly - a,à,á,â.) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
