On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:29:54 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > James Brown, try this in /etc/default/console-setup > > and see what happens: > > > > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > > CODESET="Uni2" > > FONTFACE="TerminusBold" > > FONTSIZE="32x16" > > And run 'setupcon' after making the changes?
This works for me. :-) I never had thought about configuring the console before. My issue had been 80-character fonts for GRUB, then tiny fonts (132 columns?) after boot. 32x16 is a good size for me, however Terminus is squarish, uglier than the default font IMO. OT RANT: Debian's use of /etc/default drives me nuts! I like the Unix philosphy that config files are in /etc/something, sometimes in $HOME/.something. And now it is also necessary to check /etc/default/something. Why does Debian console-setup need to place config files in /etc/default? Maybe I shouldn't bother, since my current system has only 65 entries in /etc/default. But then here is /etc/default/exim4, with options I never knew where to look for! Probably people get used to this, but for me it seems scattered. I know the reason is that upgraded packages need to rewrite their /etc/something config files without clobbering local admin settings. So that /etc/default seems to really mean /etc/not-default or /etc/default-until-changed, or /etc/settings-never-over-written-by-package-upgrade. If I had been around for that part of that discussion, I would have advocated a single-file solution, for example a two-part file with distinct sections: ######################################################################### ##### THE FOLLOWING SECTION MAY BE REWRITTEN DURING PACKAGE UPGRADE ##### ######################################################################### It works for GRUB! Not that I expect Debian to change direction. Just my opinion. Cheers, -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120407074500.GA18783@sprite
