From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F541384B4 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F43121C01F; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.web-xs.org (mail.web-xs.org [148.251.4.204]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7768C21C00D for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB246EC336A for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:46:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.web-xs.org Received: from mail.web-xs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.web-xs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GOSzXEXXcdYX for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:46:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from server-1.localdomain (p54A71937.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.167.25.55]) (Authenticated sender: lukas@der-erste-sinn.de) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 61E9A6EC3350 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:46:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from hal9000.localdomain (hal.localdomain [192.168.0.2]) by server-1.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F8D591 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:13:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:45:43 +0100 From: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited Message-ID: <20151204204543.1c024567@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20151204185810.GA3905@waltdnes.org> References: <72479272.Iazj106paV@wstn> <20151203183802.GH2136@acm.fritz.box> <1893427.zLYdoBPIus@wstn> <20151204185810.GA3905@waltdnes.org> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49d4f1d9-efb4-4d2f-9567-5011e92af840 X-Archives-Hash: 59d466b8c996eab10e34c74a90fafc48 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. -- Regards wabe