[gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

[gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

[Jarry]

Hi,

I just installed Gentoo on one box and noticed one
strange thing when I'm in console:

Small letter "m" looks more like "M" reduced in size.
And small "w" looks more like small and rotated "M".
How can I fix it???

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 19.10.2012 21:08, schrieb Jarry:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Gentoo on one box and noticed one
> strange thing when I'm in console:
> 
> Small letter "m" looks more like "M" reduced in size.
> And small "w" looks more like small and rotated "M".
> How can I fix it???
> 
> Jarry
> 

What terminal emulator are you using?

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

[Norman Invasion]

On 19 October 2012 15:08, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Gentoo on one box and noticed one
> strange thing when I'm in console:
>
> Small letter "m" looks more like "M" reduced in size.
> And small "w" looks more like small and rotated "M".
> How can I fix it???

If by "console" you mean the console, you can
compile a custom kernel with the console font
you desire.

If you mean a terminal emulator, such as xterm,
you can usually use -fn lucidasanstypewriter-10
or -fn ""-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-80-100-100-*-*-*-*"
or some similar nonsense. x11-apps/xfontsel can
help with finding font names.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Gentoo on one box and noticed one
> strange thing when I'm in console:
>
> Small letter "m" looks more like "M" reduced in size.
> And small "w" looks more like small and rotated "M".
> How can I fix it???

Maybe the default font in your video card is funny. It seems they are
all different.

You can manually set a new font using the "setfont" program which
comes from the sys-apps/kbd package.

If you are using openrc, it contains /etc/conf.d/consolefont and
/etc/init.d/consolefont which you can use to automatically override
with a font of your own choosing at each reboot.

I personally use "ter-112n" from the package media-fonts/terminus-font
on my console.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

[Jarry]

On 20-Oct-12 0:15, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> Small letter "m" looks more like "M" reduced in size.
>> And small "w" looks more like small and rotated "M".
>
> If you are using openrc, it contains /etc/conf.d/consolefont and
> /etc/init.d/consolefont which you can use to automatically override
> with a font of your own choosing at each reboot.

I booted install-cd, and console font there looks normal.
Then I booted my system again, and console font looks ugly.

I checked /etc/conf.d/consolefont: both install-cd and my system
use "default8x16". The only difference was that my freshly
installed system did not have corresponding start-up script
activated. So all I had to do was:

# rc-update add consolefont boot

Now font in console looks normal. Thanks!

Jarry

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