Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

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waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
> 
> > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been
> > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI.
> > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without
> > going the whole hog.
> 
>   Speaking of console fonts, is there a 24 pixel-wide font available,
> or are there font-editors that can easily double or triple the width
> of a font?  I have a 1920x1080 monitor, and 8-pixel-wide fonts are
> unreadable with a 240-column-wide display.  I currently have...
> 
> consolefont="sun12x22"
> 
> ...in /etc/conf.d/consolefont.  Remember to run...
> 
> rc-update add consolefont boot
> 
> ...to make it take effect.  That's 160 columns across, and readable,
> but still too much.  A 24-pixel-wide font would give me 80 columns
> across.
> 

Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font needs
some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system X was
already installed before I installed media-fonts/terminus-font.

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Regards
wabe