Font setting file ?

IceChant · 04-14-2006, 07:25 AM

I couldn't find it in any search I did, which file control the console font settings ?
I'm not asking how to change/choose font I know it's possible to do it throw pkgtool or by running the script but where I can find what's the console font I'm on right now.

Bruce Hill · 04-14-2006, 07:54 AM

They're located in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ but atm I can't remember what sets them...

Alien_Hominid · 04-15-2006, 02:28 AM

Maybe setfont ???

IceChant · 04-15-2006, 04:29 AM

I emailed info@slackware.com I hope to get reply weird that it can't be found, I'll post the reply when/if I'll get it.

Bruce Hill · 04-15-2006, 05:11 AM

Did you issue and read "man setfont"?

Alien_Hominid · 04-15-2006, 05:28 AM

If you are asking me, no I didn't (you see, I was scratching head). I just found it mentioned somewhere. Here is the shortened man output:

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NAME

       setfont - load EGA/VGA console screen font



SYNOPSIS

       setfont   [-O  font+umap.orig]  [-o  font.orig]  [-om  cmap.orig]  [-ou
       umap.orig] [-N] [font.new ...]  [-m cmap] [-u umap] [-C console]  [-hH]
       [-v] [-V]



DESCRIPTION

       The  setfont  command  reads a font from the file font.new and loads it
       into the EGA/VGA character generator, and optionally outputs the previ-
       ous  font.  It can also load various mapping tables and output the pre-
       vious versions.

       If no args are given (or only the option -N for some number N), then  a
       default  (8xN)  font is loaded (see below).  One may give several small
       fonts, all containing a Unicode table, and setfont  will  combine  them
       and load the union.  Typical use:

       setfont
              Load a default font.

       setfont drdos8x16
              Load a given font (here the 448-glyph drdos font).

       setfont cybercafe -u cybercafe
              Load  a  given font that does not have a Unicode map and provide
              one explicitly.

       setfont LatArCyrHeb-19 -m 8859-2
              Load a given font (here a 512-glyph font combining several char-
              acter  sets)  and indicate that one’s local character set is ISO
              8859-2.

       Note: if a font has more than 256 glyphs, only 8 out of 16  colors  can
       be  used  simultaneously. It can make console perception worse (loss of
       intensity and even some colors).

Offtopic: Chinaman, I hope that you got my mail, because it was rejected at first time. If not, thanks for the script again. It's rather useful, even I can't get lm_sensors to show temperature.

tobyl · 04-15-2006, 05:32 AM

do you have /etc/rc.d/rc.font ?

mine looks like this

#!/bin/sh
#
# This selects your default screen font from among the ones in
# /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts.
#
setfont -v 161.cp.gz -16

it is called from /etc/rc.d/rc.M

# Load a custom screen font if the user has an rc.font script.
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.font ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.font
fi

tobyl

Bruce Hill · 04-15-2006, 05:42 AM

Alien_Hominid,

The question was to the OP, sorry. And I don't guess I got your mail. I thought I got it and replied, but I don't see it. Please send again.

Alien_Hominid · 04-15-2006, 05:49 AM

Oh. It wasn't an important letter. I just expressed gratitude for your friendliness.

I've got a responce from your server, that i couldn't be authorised to send these letters into your server (you know, I'm using dyndns), so I registered and resent it. That's all.

Oh, great, i was right about setfont.

IceChant · 04-15-2006, 05:59 AM

I read the setfont info but missed few things :-/
My rc.font:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This selects your default screen font from among the ones in
# /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts.
#
setfont -v

Yes very clear on which command to use but still I don't understand where the setting is saved.

Alien_Hominid · 04-18-2006, 02:57 AM

So did you get the responce?

IceChant · 04-28-2006, 05:06 AM

Nope, I didn't.

Bruce Hill · 04-28-2006, 05:39 AM

From reading "man setfont" I learned:

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FILES
       /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts is the default font  directory.   /usr/share/kbd/unimaps  is
       the  default  directory  for  Unicode  maps.  /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans is the default
       directory for screen mappings.  The default font is a file default (or default8xN if the
       -N option was given for some number N) perhaps with suitable extension (like .psf).

Post #7 is quite clear, also.

IceChant · 04-28-2006, 06:00 AM

I wasn't asking how to set font, I know how to do that.
I was asking on which file the font selection is saved.

Bruce Hill · 04-28-2006, 06:04 AM

Is it not saved in the file indicated by us and the manual page?