On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:37:26PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:18:40PM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote: > > [...] > > > maybe, but I have no such command. > > Sorry .. was in too much of a rush to proofread before posting. > > The command is "showconsolefont" and it's part of the kbd package. > > http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fcky/showconsolefont.png > Interesting. Installing kbd removed console-tools. With kbd installed showconsolefont displayed the current character set, exactly what I wanted to see. Next I followed the link you gave and googled kbd reaching http://freshmeat.net/projects/kdb but neither site gave any information regarding the tools included in kbd.
Returning to a search of Debian packages I learned that console-tools is a replacement for kbd and a package kbd-compat supplies backward compatability so I reinstalled console-tools which removed kbd and then installed kbd-compat. kbd-compat may provide some backward compatability but this does not include showconsolefonts. I returned to a study of the consolechars man page and experimented with the -sfm (screen-font-map) command both bare and with font names supplied from the /usr/share/consolefonts and /usr/share/consoletrans files but failed to find the right combination to get a display of the character set like that generated by kbd's showconsolefont command. Perhaps I am being a little thickheaded in failing to understand the consolechars man page but it seems to me that a couple examples - this is how to display the characters in the current font and this is how you display the characters in a specified font - would not be amiss. Tom > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
