Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-18 Thread J. C.
In Oct 18 A.D. 2016 Martin Kühne via arch-general scripsit ... Let's start out with the setting with a font you intend like to use that is as closely above 80 columns as you can make it. $ stty cols 80 will inform the kernel what size of terminal your receiving end has. ... Thank you very much!

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-18 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
Let's start out with the setting with a font you intend like to use that is as closely above 80 columns as you can make it. $ stty cols 80 will inform the kernel what size of terminal your receiving end has. This way you truncate the view on the screen and get your precise 80x* terminal. You could

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-18 Thread J. C.
Hi, I tried the Terminus fonts to get an 80xsomething console size. The number of rows can adjusted satisfactorilly, but the number of columns is either greater or lesser than 80. Is there a way to set wider spacing on the terminal or something to get exactly 80 characters per line? the termi

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-14 Thread Charlie Li
On 14/10/16 06:00, J. C. wrote: > thanks for your input. I tried the iso01-12x22 font, which almost works. > There are lots more consolefonts out there that you can install. I personally use terminus; it has sizes larger than even 12x22 > display. For that reason 80 characters per line (exactly) a

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-14 Thread J. C.
In Oct 14 A.D. 2016 Charlie Li scripsit: First reaction, do you actually *want* a smaller framebuffer (that's probably scaled as well) or just bigger text size? If the latter, you can just change the consolefont. Hey Charlie, thanks for your input. I tried the iso01-12x22 font, which almost work

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-14 Thread Charlie Li
On 14/10/16 05:03, J. C. wrote: > I'm new to Arch Linux, but not to Linux as such. I tried to set my > terminal to 800x600 (80chars by 30 lines or there abouts), but without > success. > First reaction, do you actually *want* a smaller framebuffer (that's probably scaled as well) or just bigger te

[arch-general] Can't change tty size

2016-10-14 Thread J. C.
Hey hey everyone, I'm new to Arch Linux, but not to Linux as such. I tried to set my terminal to 800x600 (80chars by 30 lines or there abouts), but without success. lspci reports my graphics card as: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2