default font for text-mode

artificialGekko · 03-18-2005, 03:08 PM

I can set the font displayed in the text-mode with

Code:

setfont lat0-08

but when I reboot the computer it's all back to default again. Now I looked at /etc/profile.conf and found how to set a new default for the font-colors but nothing about the font itself. Did I miss something there or is it stored in some other place? Any help greatly appreciated!

CARTMAN · 03-18-2005, 04:09 PM

Try running fontconfig in console.

artificialGekko · 03-18-2005, 05:08 PM

That brings up a "command not found" in text-mode as well as in X.

d00msweek · 03-18-2005, 05:11 PM

how about putting

Code:

setfont lat0-08

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local ?

artificialGekko · 03-18-2005, 05:21 PM

That works! Though - is there a way to just globally set another font as the default? With the setfont command in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local it only switches to the new font right before login, the LILO bootmenu is still in the huge 25xwhatever screen-characters default font.

tobyl · 03-18-2005, 05:44 PM

it wouldn't be /etc/rc.d/rc.font would it?
I admit to not testing...
tobyl

artificialGekko · 03-18-2005, 08:36 PM

Suspected that too, but it doesn't work...

chbin · 03-18-2005, 11:09 PM

Mine is rc.font.new. Make sure the file is executable, chmod +x rc.font.new. Works for me.

chbin · 03-18-2005, 11:11 PM

The only way to get a font before init runs is to pass vga=whatever to the kernel or use a framebuffer for you card and pass video=whatever.

artificialGekko · 03-19-2005, 01:55 AM

Okay, I installed LILO to the mbr anew with the framebuffer option enabled and it gives me a smaller font right away, for some reason it was set to normal vga before...