Re: [opensuse] Adjusting console font size
On 2014-01-23 14:08 (GMT-0500) Ted Byers composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-01-23 12:17 (GMT-0500) Greg Freemyer composed:
fyi: Even with a 12x22 font there are 80 lines on the console!
There they live, but how does one apply one from there after booting has finished?
What console,
[tty[1-6]
and what desktop? I do not know enough to know whether you do it differently between KDE and Gnome.
X and tty[1-6] fonts are controlled entirely differently from how done in KDE & Gnome.
I could not figure out how to do this using XTerm, and it's fonts are too small; and therefore I can't use it.
For xterm, put in ~/.Xresources (for largest possible size): xterm*vt100.initialFont: 6
On Konsole, once I started it, I could select 'Settings', followed by 'Edit current Profile'. In the dialog that appeared, I selected the 'Appearance' tab, and at the bottom, selected 12 point bold, and at least now my tired old eyes could actually read the text without strain. The default was 8, normal, which I suppose only the
Always here for virgin user Konsole defaults to misc-fixed 9 unless I first raise desktop fonts in systemsettings from 9 to 10, in which case Konsole starts at misc-fixed 10. I normally change to monospace from misc-fixed, but there is a new (Ghostscript "Monospace") bug that makes line spacing excessive if that choice is make, so I have to choose a specific font family.
young and healthy (I am neither) have a hope of being able to read.
I am still struggling to learn the Linux way of doing things, but I thought this sort of thing was handled through something like a configuration file (like .bashrc, for bash - BTW, I can't find the copy of that file for the user 'root', and want to add a couple aliases to it), or is that a false impression due to the limited range of applications I have examined? Or am I way off base, in terms of what console you're talking about?
.bashrc isn't needed unless you want to add such things as aliases, so just make one. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Thanks Felix On 14-01-23 02:20 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-01-23 14:08 (GMT-0500) Ted Byers composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-01-23 12:17 (GMT-0500) Greg Freemyer composed:
fyi: Even with a 12x22 font there are 80 lines on the console!
There they live, but how does one apply one from there after booting has finished?
What console,
[tty[1-6]
Never heard of it. I guess I'll google it to learn something about it. But, doess it not have a configuration file like the other consoles?
and what desktop? I do not know enough to know whether you do it differently between KDE and Gnome.
X and tty[1-6] fonts are controlled entirely differently from how done in KDE & Gnome.
I could not figure out how to do this using XTerm, and it's fonts are too small; and therefore I can't use it.
For xterm, put in ~/.Xresources (for largest possible size): xterm*vt100.initialFont: 6
On Konsole, once I started it, I could select 'Settings', followed by 'Edit current Profile'. In the dialog that appeared, I selected the 'Appearance' tab, and at the bottom, selected 12 point bold, and at least now my tired old eyes could actually read the text without strain. The default was 8, normal, which I suppose only the
Always here for virgin user Konsole defaults to misc-fixed 9 unless I first raise desktop fonts in systemsettings from 9 to 10, in which case Konsole starts at misc-fixed 10. I normally change to monospace from misc-fixed, but there is a new (Ghostscript "Monospace") bug that makes line spacing excessive if that choice is make, so I have to choose a specific font family.
young and healthy (I am neither) have a hope of being able to read.
I am still struggling to learn the Linux way of doing things, but I thought this sort of thing was handled through something like a configuration file (like .bashrc, for bash - BTW, I can't find the copy of that file for the user 'root', and want to add a couple aliases to it), or is that a false impression due to the limited range of applications I have examined? Or am I way off base, in terms of what console you're talking about?
.bashrc isn't needed unless you want to add such things as aliases, so just make one. OK. I have already edited mine in my home directory. Where would I put
OK, great. Thanks. I'll give that a try. the new .bashrc for the root directory? Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-01-23 14:44 (GMT-0500) Ted Byers composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
What console,
[tty[1-6]
Never heard of it.
Not "it", "them". Ctrl-Alt-F#, where # is any of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In some installations this has been less predictable. The traditional location for getting back to X is reached by Ctrl-Alt-F7, but in other distros you may find it via Ctrl-Alt-F1 or somewhere else. On some openSUSE installations I've seen the same unpredictable landing of X on other than tty7.
I guess I'll google it to learn something about it. But, doess it not have a configuration file like the other consoles?
/etc/sysconfig/console
.bashrc isn't needed unless you want to add such things as aliases, so just make one.
OK. I have already edited mine in my home directory. Where would I put the new .bashrc for the root directory?
In root's home dir, /root. Root needs access to its home whether /home exists or is mounted or not, so it goes in / instead of /home. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Felix Miata [23.01.2014 21:02]:
On 2014-01-23 14:44 (GMT-0500) Ted Byers composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
What console,
[tty[1-6]
Never heard of it.
Not "it", "them". Ctrl-Alt-F#, where # is any of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In some installations this has been less predictable. The traditional location for getting back to X is reached by Ctrl-Alt-F7, but in other distros you may find it via Ctrl-Alt-F1 or somewhere else. On some openSUSE installations I've seen the same unpredictable landing of X on other than tty7.
To reach it with Ctrl-Alt-F7, I boot into runlevel 3 (or multiuser.target), change all through the ttys 1-6 by pressing Ctrl-F2 to Ctrl-F6 subsequently until I see a login prompt, and log in on tty6 to start my KDE with "startx". Up to now, I can get back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7 then. No, I do not complain that this only became necessary after systemd was introduced... Werner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-01-24 07:54 (GMT+0100) Werner Flamme composed:
Felix Miata composed:
On 2014-01-23 14:44 (GMT-0500) Ted Byers composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
[tty[1-6]
Never heard of it.
Not "it", "them". Ctrl-Alt-F#, where # is any of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In some installations this has been less predictable. The traditional location for getting back to X is reached by Ctrl-Alt-F7, but in other distros you may find it via Ctrl-Alt-F1 or somewhere else. On some openSUSE installations I've seen the same unpredictable landing of X on other than tty7.
To reach it with Ctrl-Alt-F7, I boot into runlevel 3 (or multiuser.target), change all through the ttys 1-6 by pressing Ctrl-F2 to Ctrl-F6 subsequently until I see a login prompt, and log in on tty6 to start my KDE with "startx". Up to now, I can get back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7 then.
No, I do not complain that this only became necessary after systemd was introduced...
Not necessary for me, but I don't have plymouth installed, and I run a script after installation of 12.3, 13.1 and 13.2 one time that lights up all ttys at init time instead of "on demand". Maybe it will save you that hassle. Before running it, move or remove the content from /etc/systemd/getty.target.wants/. http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/gettysmk.sh -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Felix Miata
I run a script after installation of 12.3, 13.1 and 13.2 one time that lights up all ttys at init time instead of "on demand".
Any reason to not use NAutoVTs= in logind.conf? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-01-24 12:49 (GMT+0400) Andrey Borzenkov composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
I run a script after installation of 12.3, 13.1 and 13.2 one time that lights up all ttys at init time instead of "on demand".
Any reason to not use NAutoVTs= in logind.conf?
Can't say without experimenting. I never knew either existed before. The logind.conf man page explanation doesn't make clear to me its action timing. What I do seems to ensure the login prompt instead of "on demand" is already ready whenever I switch to any of 1-6 every time I choose to do so (no apparent evidence prompt was not already there when switched to instead of triggered by the switch to), as well as ensuring no X session lands on any of 1-6. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-01-24 07:54, Werner Flamme wrote:
To reach it with Ctrl-Alt-F7, I boot into runlevel 3 (or multiuser.target), change all through the ttys 1-6 by pressing Ctrl-F2 to Ctrl-F6 subsequently until I see a login prompt, and log in on tty6 to start my KDE with "startx". Up to now, I can get back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7 then.
No, I do not complain that this only became necessary after systemd was introduced...
Not systemd, but plymouth, I believe. One of the reasons I remove plymouth. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)
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