changing the font size at cmd prompt possible ?
 

hi guys
i recently started using linux , so please forgive my lack of use of the correct termonology!

i have changed my monitor from crt to lcd and find the fonts to be a little out of focus,

so far i have achieved native resolution of 1280x1024 in gnome which is great!
i have configured grub by adding the vga=xxx appropraite for native resolution of my monitor which is great !.........but herein lay the problem,
everything is so small and stuck up in the left corner , so small that i cant read it very well.

which leads me to the question how do i increase the font sizes at cmd prompt without changing the resolution ?
dare i say .:o.......in windows i would increase the DPI , how do i achieve this in centos ?:scratch:

thanx in advance

yunus

depending on termial you use,
i increased font size in options of my xfce4-terminal.

this would be the cmd prompt before X , not a terminal window in X

xfce4-termina ?? sorry guys i am a complete noob

y

no possible solutions ? anybody ??? please !!!

Set a lower resolution for your framebuffer, it will not affect your X resolution.

using the lower resolution makes things bigger yes but also less clear which is why i use the native resolution in the first place.

x resolution does not bother me at all, because the software we use does not need x it is acucobol based and runs from cmd :

i would like the clarity of the high resolution but a bigger font size at cmd :

ta
y

xfce4-terminal is a GUI terminal emulator for the Xfce desktop environment.

Try another font then, you can change them using the setfont tool, the available fonts usually live at /usr/share/consolefonts/ (it could differ in your distro).

Your distro might offer a way to configure this properly via your init system, and also some packages with console fonts. If not, just google for them.