On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:22:07AM -0600, lee wrote: > Hm, the console font has changed over the years. I was thinking it has > to do with which graphics card you are using, but I don't know.
I have only very limited experience with the output of graphic cards of the last 7 years (ah, the power of remote unix administration), but I have never seen substantial change in the font displayed at linux boot with vga=normal (before a console font is loaded from disk) > Isn't it possible to convert/use the console font for X11? It must be, and I once (many years ago) tried a conversion with no good results. For example, debian has gbdfed ( http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed/ ) which can import linux console fonts and can export the "hex" format which is used in the unifont packages (which can be used by X). See the links below: it seems that a ubuntu user was able to use in this way his preferred VGA console font in gnome terminal. > It's the hardware what is responsible for the switch in > brightness/contrast. Did you try to use gamma correction to make up for > it? no, I am completely ignorant about gamma correction. The use of the hardware brightness/contrast change of the monitor is possible, but useless at best when one is continuously switching between X and console. > And I would really like to have the console font for X11. All the > others are not as easy to read. Why shouldn't that be possible? me too, but we seem to be about the only ones with this problem, since debian has a direct solution only for the *opposite* problem (bdf2psf) Some time ago, I found with Google links like these: Linkname: Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts URL: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ Linkname: Hackszine.com: The perfect Terminal (or console) font? URL: http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/the_perfect_terminal_or_consol.html Linkname: Renaissance Man: What's your favourite terminal/programming font? URL: http://jack-of-all-tradez.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-your-favourite-terminalprogramming.html Linkname: terminal/gnome-console fonts - Ubuntu Forums URL: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=14275 Linkname: [ubuntu] vga font in gnome-terminal emulator - Ubuntu Forums URL: http://backports.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?p=5302718 Hopefully your eyes might like these solutions, at least more than my eyes did. -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
