SlackwareThis Forum is for the discussion of Slackware Linux.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
thank you for your reply. yes I have, but i would like to do know if i can change the settings from the command line as stated. i have also viewed the man page for font. however i have been unable to get any of the commands to work from either the user acct. i created or from the root user acct.
I think your best bet is to install the ap/terminus-font package from -current (it won't conflict with anything in 14.0), and then try some of those fonts, like this one:
thank you for your reply. i dont know how to do that yet. i get that ap/terminus-font package is a package to be installed. is -current a file it will create or one that is already there? I'm just trying to make the text larger when the system boots up and the command line comes up, its kind of small because im thinking the high resolution of my monitor. iono
thank you for your reply. i dont know how to do that yet. i get that ap/terminus-font package is a package to be installed. is -current a file it will create or one that is already there? I'm just trying to make the text larger when the system boots up and the command line comes up, its kind of small because im thinking the high resolution of my monitor. iono
-current is the development version of Slackware. The terminus-font package isn't in Slackware 14.0.
Here's what you need to do to try this:
Code:
cd /tmp
lftpget ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/terminus-font-4.38-noarch-1.txz
installpkg terminus-font-4.38-noarch-1.txz
setfont ter-120b
You can check out the other fonts in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts, too. If you like the result, add the setfont line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script and you're good to go.
OFFTOPIC: That is a nice looking font. I am not very knowledgeable about fonts, may it be that this is not an Unicode font? I use some Unicode characters in my shell prompt, but they are only displayed as blocks with the Terminus font, is there a way to correct that?
I would check the availability of the characters you need in that font. According to this page, version 4.38 (shipped in -currrent) contains 879 characters. The README file in the source tarball lists the code pages included and I assume that the /uni directory includes:
(1) For every code page, the UTF-8 encoding of the characters of that code page
(2) In the 10646-1 file, the UTF-8 encoding of all 879 included characters.
So to make sure, just "grep <UTF-8 hexadecimal code of the needed character> /uni/10646-1" to check.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 03-14-2013 at 05:12 PM.
thank you for reply. get1: access failed: 550 failed to open file (pub/slackware...etc....tzx)get1: not connected...forgot to mention i havent figure how to connect to interweb yet looks like it woulda work though
strike that last reply. I open KDE and it seem i am abale to connect to the interweb maybe i typed something the wrong way when i entered the code
or maybe i'm not connected at the command line iono
If your screen is smaller or bigger than mine customize 279x85+0+0 parameter. The first value is for the width and the second for the height.
***
Misunderstanding. I read just the first post and I guessed that you’d like to put more text on the screen. Meanwhile your goal is opposite. So you could try the bigger font such as 9x15 decreasing the values in 279x85+0+0 parameter. That concerns X Window of course.
In my case the right command is the following:
xterm +sb -fg black -bg white -geometry 186x68+0+0 -fn 9x15
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.