Thank you for such a detailed answer. It worked great. Neal McDermottOn Sunday 19 May 2002 10:47 pm, Kevin L Hochhalter wrote:
On Sunday 19 May 2002 18:28, Glenn Holmer wrote:
neal mcdermott wrote:
I know that you used to be able to change the console font (when you are using the command line and not the x windows system) using yast, but how can you do it now?
I am not so much worried about the size of the font as about how choppy it is, it is hard to look at. If I could change it to look like the default font for Red Hat, or MS DOS, which are about the same size as the default Suse font, only smoother, that would be great.
Well, I know how *not* to do it... I changed CONSOLE_FONT to "t.fnt" in /etc/sysconfig/console, and it momentarily switches it during the boot sequence, but then immediately changes it back.
There seems to be a problem with /etc/sysconfig/console, and it has to do with the CONSOLE_SCREENMAP entry. /etc/init.d/kbd doesn't seem to like the entry of "none" that was there in my system, and since I know the console runs in utf-8, I simple commented out that line. Try editing /etc/sysconfig/console, and change the line
CONSOLE_SCREENMAP="none"
to
#CONSOLE_SCREENMAP="none"
You can then change the font to any that you have in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts by changing the line
CONSOLE_FONT="CurrentEntry"
to
CONSOLE_FONT="YourChoice"
If the font is gzipped, leave off the .gz extension.
No need to reboot, either. To reload the console after changing the font, try this
/etc/init.d/kbd reload
or
cd /etc/init.d ./kbd reload
You can always use YaST2 to change the console font, too. Just make sure that you have commented out that line in /etc/sysconfig/console first. Start YaST2, and then click on "System", followed by "Sysconfig Editor." Click on the + that is next to "Base-Administration", and then click on "Console". If you don't see the font you want in the pulldown menu, just enter your choice there by hand. To finish up, click "Save" and then "ok."
You can do this with YaST2 in text mode, of course, but it is a little clunky. Making use of the Alt key rather than Tab helps things a lot, though. Also, if you are using YaST2 in text mode, and you see a + symbol, try using the + key that is on the number pad, rather than the + key that is next to Backspace. The + next to Backspace doesn't seem to work right if you are using a US key map for the keyboard.
You might give the font lat1-16.psfu a try, since it is really smooth. Kind of big, though, but the older I get, the bigger my fonts ;-)
Hope this helps, Kevin