Hi Paul
I kind of agree, and I also always wanted an easy way of having fonts.
But bitmap fonts for framebuffer
is a bit more complicated than just a font. setfont comes together with
keyboards of all kinds (loadkyes).
And for high resolution displays, I really want a setfont -d for most
fonts (to be able to use the screen
without magnifier).
So there's /etc/default/console-setup (which can define a font, and that
you could just simply overwrite)
Installing the psf.gz (or any setfont compatible font) into
/usr/share/consolefonts doesn't make it
appear in the tui magically, there's some code processing:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup-linux.list
Here's some more console fonts:
https://github.com/alexmyczko/ree/tree/master/fnt
And I'd really like to have these, additionally to spleen:
fonts-agave, fonts-topaz-unicode (easy as src is bdf, using bdf2psf),
fonts-ocr-b, fonts-atarist (also bdf src), fonts-kode-mono,
fonts-league-mono, fonts-tt2020, fonts-ferrite-core?
Anton: maybe you have a better idea?
Best,
Alex
Well mostly the fonts- packages install vector fonts of formats ttf or
otf.
The setfont command and your configure thing uses fonts from the
package console-setup-linux,
mostly compressed pcf font format (bitmap).
Try dpkg -L console-setup-linux to see some fonts.
But this is exactly the point I'm trying to make. Spleen *is* a console
font (the package description says "monospace font for consoles and
terminals", and the file list -
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-spleen/filelist - shows
compressed psfu files, compressed pcf files alongside the otf files).
Maybe this bug needs to be reassigned to console-setup-linux if the
only way for developers to distribute console fonts is to extend the
console-setup-linux package, but it feels like it would be a more
flexible system if one could install extra packages of fonts and see
them appear in the choice.
As an analogy, notice that people can install, say "fonts-dejavu" and
the DejaVu fonts appear in tools such as fc-list. You don't find all
the possible fonts getting packaged in "fontconfig". In a similar way,
as an end user, I would expect to be able to install fonts-spleen, or
fonts-ubuntu-console, and then be able to pick them by reconfiguring
the console.
Your best bet to cread pcf fonts are packages like: bitsnpicas and
psftools (not packaged officially),
but grab a copy from:
http://bananas.debian.net/debian/psftools/
Best,
Alex
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