Stephen Powell wrote:
Things have changed in the area of text-mode console fonts between
Lenny and Squeeze. And I'm not happy about it.
[snip: that was long!]
By running "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" I can get a VGA font of
the right point size (as long as what I need is 8, 14, or 16). But
the VGA fonts in console-setup are really *ugly* compared to the
very-nice-looking fonts that I'm used to from the kbd and
console-tools packages, chiefly lat1u-08, lat1u-14, and lat1u-16.
I have kbd installed under Squeeze now, and I can set the font
on the fly by using
setfont lat1u-08
for example, and then things look OK. But if I switch to
the X console with Alt+F7, then switch back to a text console with
Cntl+Alt+F1, I'm back to the ugly font from console-setup. Some of
the fonts are worse than others. The 8-point font isn't *too* bad,
but the 14-point font is horrible. The lower-case "s", for example,
doesn't even start on the same baseline as the other letters. Is
there some way to make console-setup use the nice-looking fonts
from /usr/share/consolefonts that were designed for kbd and/or
console-tools? There's a wide selection of them, and a lot of time
and effort has been spent over the years to make them look nice.
And now that all gets thrown out by the hastily-thrown-together,
limited selection, ugly fonts in console-setup. Yuck!
What did the 'console-setup' documentation say about setting fonts?
Did you at least read the comments in '/etc/default/console-setup'?
If reading the docs does not solve the problem for you, you can wait for
an answer from debian-user for a while. If no answer comes, you could
file a bug against 'console-setup'... but I'm sure the maintainers will
tell you: it's not a bug, please RTFM (and they may even tell you how
to do it).
I actually use settings in '/etc/default/console-setup' to _prevent_ the
package from replacing the kernel fonts -- I somehow discovered the
weird 10x18 font provided by the kernel a few years ago, and grew to
love it! I can tell 'console-setup' to not load any software font at
all, and I end up with that 10x18 thing on all my VTs.
HTH,
Dave W.
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