waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been > > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. > > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without > > going the whole hog. > > Speaking of console fonts, is there a 24 pixel-wide font available, > or are there font-editors that can easily double or triple the width > of a font? I have a 1920x1080 monitor, and 8-pixel-wide fonts are > unreadable with a 240-column-wide display. I currently have... > > consolefont="sun12x22" > > ...in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. Remember to run... > > rc-update add consolefont boot > > ...to make it take effect. That's 160 columns across, and readable, > but still too much. A 24-pixel-wide font would give me 80 columns > across. >
Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system X was already installed before I installed media-fonts/terminus-font. -- Regards wabe
