From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3CA1381FA for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DB35E0B9C; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A55DE0B81 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 06:22:25 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq0GAIDvNVMXW5aa/2dsb2JhbABZFoJwO8NMgRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBOhwoCwshEwERDwUlNx6HUwgN0gwXjHqCBxaDDoEUBI8+iQ+GYYtVg0wh X-IPAS-Result: Aq0GAIDvNVMXW5aa/2dsb2JhbABZFoJwO8NMgRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBOhwoCwshEwERDwUlNx6HUwgN0gwXjHqCBxaDDoEUBI8+iQ+GYYtVg0wh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="63483655" Received: from 23-91-150-154.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO waltdnes.org) ([23.91.150.154]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 21 May 2014 02:22:23 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 21 May 2014 02:22:21 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 02:22:21 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes Message-ID: <20140521062221.GA6944@waltdnes.org> References: <53770CFD.7010107@gmail.com> <20140517112108.GA8077@grusum.endjinn.de> <20140518011717.GB2779@waltdnes.org> <20140519102352.GB22577@grusum.endjinn.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140519102352.GB22577@grusum.endjinn.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: 8b607f3c-3629-4e53-b8cb-446c948850ff X-Archives-Hash: f3723fcdd73b347552f8287d561d56af On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0200, David Haller wrote > emerge terminus-font > > might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a > framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;) > I like default8x16 better though. At least at vga=normal which gives > me a nice 80x25 terminal ;) I now have 80x25 consolemode on the notebook. Thanks for that info. My next goal is 80x40 etc. > >* Plan B) is there free software around that can modify/tweak the > > regular fonts to double their width? > > emerge psftools > man -k psf Not really what I was looking for. It simply converts between different machine formats. I went to the project homepage at http://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ looking for more info. I noticed a pointer to the PSF file format at... http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html I'll take a crack at writing a "consolefont magnify" utility. What I want to do is magnify lat1-08, lat1-10, lat1-12, lat1-14, and lat1-16 vertically and horizontally. The simplest approach will be to magnify by a factor of 2 or 3. Since the fonts were originally for a 640 pixel-wide screen, that would would work on my notebook (640 * 2 = 1280) and on my 24" desktop monitor (640 * 3 = 1920). -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications