On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:17:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > In testing 7.6-rc1 I ran into a niggling visual issue. The [ OK ] didn't > align properly on the console boot script line under some circumstances. > > What I'm doing in the console script is changing the font so the screen > changes from 240 characters to 137 characters in width. > > I can fix the alignment by adding the following lines after the font change: > > unset COLUMNS > . /lib/services/init_functions > > This resets the column width and other variables used by the script. It is > only needed when a font change is being made that changes the number of > columns on the screen. > > This is pretty minor. Is this change worth doing? > > -- Bruce
It sounds beneficial - I know what fonts suit me, and I'm lucky enough to use framebuffers with font sizes (8x16 and 12x22 on different machines) for which the kernel can provide fonts of this size. But for people who are perhaps new to working in a tty (while they build whatever desktop they plan to use), I think it is important to find a font that suits. That may well mean some people end up with uncommon-size fonts, and lining up the 'OK' will look better. To look at the other side of this, now that we are in an -rc: this is just a change to the bootscripts, so a simple test for no unexpected side effects (by those of us who do not change the font size) should prove it does no harm ? Of course, in the light of other threads on Tuesday, all this extra work (by bash) will slow down the boot ;-) ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
