Package: console-setup Version: 1.50 Severity: normal Hi (again)!
During the discussions for bug #546983, console-setup was greatly improved by Anton Zinoviev (which I would like to thank again): the console is now able to display 'toilet -f future' symbols in a strange, yet charming way, by using "approximations". All "standard" fonts (Fixed, Terminus, TerminusBold, TerminusBoldVGA, VGA) are able to perform this magic. I chose TerminusBoldVGA, as shown below in the debconf settings section. This is really great. I noticed an awkward behavior, though. As soon as the box has finished booting, I login on the console and I see the output of, e.g.: $ toilet -f future hello ╻ ╻┏━╸╻ ╻ ┏━┓ ┣━┫┣╸ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╹ ╹┗━╸┗━╸┗━╸┗━┛ displayed correctly. I mean, the letters don't have the same height, but that's OK (it even somehow enhance the futuristic look of this toilet font!), but each letter is displayed with lines that join perfectly and form a continuous gliph. OK, after that, I start an X session: $ startx & logout If I switch back to the console (by pressing [Ctrl+Alt+F1]) and I login again, then the output of $ toilet -f future hello ╻ ╻┏━╸╻ ╻ ┏━┓ ┣━┫┣╸ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╹ ╹┗━╸┗━╸┗━╸┗━┛ looks different! I mean, each letter is displayed with lines that fail to join perfectly and thus form a discontinous gliph (as if made of "broken" pieces). This is less nice than before, but the point is: why does it look different?!? I hope this little flaw is easy to fix... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-terminus 4.30-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii keyboard-configuration 1.50 system-wide keyboard preferences ii xkb-data 1.7-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu Versions of packages console-setup recommends: ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip -- debconf information: * console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/use_system_font: console-setup/fontsize: 16 * console-setup/fontface47: TerminusBoldVGA * console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16 * console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15 console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
