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Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

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Have you tried Lucida bright yet?  When I was working my employer had a 
presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to 
improve clarity of writing.  Me never having seen anything, I don't know 
how good that font is.

On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:36:05
> From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!
> Resent-Date: Mon,  5 Sep 2016 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
>> On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>>> Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie?
>>> I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with
>>> "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful.
>>> I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results.
>>
>> I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc
>>
>> alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6"
>> alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14"
>> alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10"
>> alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12"
>> alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14"
>> alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16"
>
> Every time I use the console (which is a lot) I appreciate the existence
> of the Terminus font and could not do without it.
>
>> $ cat /etc/default/console-setup
>> # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON
>>
>> # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.
>>
>> ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
>>
>> CHARMAP="UTF-8"
>>
>> CODESET="Lat15"
>> # Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen
>>
>> VIDEOMODE=
>>
>> # The following is an example how to use a braille font
>> # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
>> FONTFACE="Terminus"
>> FONTSIZE="10x20"
>> $
>>
>> That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will
>> clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull)
>> if you are someone who looks at booting messages.
>>
>> I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the
>
> console-setup-linux provides the .psf files. In all his "playing about"
> I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with
>
>  dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
>
>> case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts
>> installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use
>> whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear.
>> However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something
>> different.
>>
>> Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW.
>
> Thanks for the detail. Something to try in the future.
>
>

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Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2016-09-05 18:10 +0200
  Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-05 18:40 +0200
  Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-05 18:50 +0200
    Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-08 06:10 +0200
      Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-08 10:10 +0200
        Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-08 10:10 +0200
          Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-08 10:40 +0200
            Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-08 10:50 +0200
            Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-08 16:20 +0200
              Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-08 19:00 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-13 20:50 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-14 11:50 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 06:10 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-15 11:20 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 13:30 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 18:00 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-18 08:00 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 18:00 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 17:20 +0200
                Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 06:10 +0200
  Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-05 19:10 +0200
    Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-05 19:40 +0200
      Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-05 19:50 +0200
        Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-05 20:10 +0200
      Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2016-09-05 20:30 +0200

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