On 12/20/18 5:39 PM, home user via users wrote: > (Rick said) >> The font(s) used by grub2 shouldbe located in /boot/grub2/fonts >> ... >> FONT_FILES in the man page just represents where the source font >> file is located. For example, to convert the FreeSans.ttf font >> (which is located in /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free) into a 24-point >> font grub2 can grok called "newfont.pf2": >> >> grub2-mkfont -o /tmp/newfont.pf2 --size=24 \ >> /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.ttf >> >> Then move/copy the file created to /boot/grub2/fonts: >> >> cp /tmp/newfont.pf2 /boot/grub2/fonts >> >> And put the name of the file into the GRUB_FONT option: >> GRUB_FONT=newfont.pf2 >> >> That oughta do it. > > Yep. That did it. > > Should anyone else choose to try Rick's suggestions, I suggest a minor > change: Name the grub font file the same as the source font file, but > with the size appended: > > 1. grub2-mkfont -o /tmp/FreeSans24.pf2 --size=24 > /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.ttf > > 2. cp /tmp/FreeSans24.pf2 /boot/grub2/fonts > > 3. put the name of the file into the GRUB_FONT option: > GRUB_FONT=FreeSans24.pf2 > > 4. do the grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg > > This way, the name of the font file documents what font and size is > being used. > > Also, I learned the hard way: the size (here, 24) has a different > meaning (units) than the font size in LibreOffice. I actually tried 16 > first. That's nice and big in LibreOffice, but it was tiny in the grub > menu. > > Thank-you, Rick.
You're quite welcome. > If, after a few days, the grub menu still looks good, I'll promote this > thread from CLOSED to SOLVED. Yeah, good idea! Note that "sizes" in most word processors or printing-related things are given in points (12 points to the inch, so 24 points is 2 inches or about 5 cm high). For display-oriented things such as grub or X or Wayland, sizes generally are in pixels (which vary depending on the resolution of the monitor), so 24 is only 24 _pixels_ high. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I don't get mad and I don't get even. I get ahead! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
