Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

[waltdnes@waltdnes.org]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, wabenbau@gmail.com wrote

> 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.

  I couldn't get anything less than 120 columns across.  Here's the
scriptlet "listres" I used to check all the terminal fonts.  Note that
it does *NOT* begin with #!/bin/bash and is not chmod'ed executable.
That's because COLUMNS and LINES are not environment variables, but are
shell variables.  So they are not inherited by a deeper script.

cd /usr/share/consolefonts
for cfont in ter-*
do
   setfont ${cfont}
   echo "${cfont} ${COLUMNS} ${LINES}"
done
cd

  I had to "source" it to stay within the same shell level...

 . listres > /dev/shm/screensize.txt

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications