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.
