On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128
which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80?
Thanks,
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Mike McClain wrote:
> On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128
> which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80?

# dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Select font and font size.


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Mike McClain <mike.junk@nethere.com> wrote:
> On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128
> which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80?

When you say "the command line" do you mean in a terminal window within
the GUI or do you mean on a non-GUI console?

If it's the latter, try changing /etc/default/console-setup so that
FONTFACE="Fixed" and FONTSIZE="13". Or some other variant to suit. Run
setupcon to test out your changes.

Chris


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Thanks for the suggestion Siard but it doesn't seem to work here.
I tried a couple of dirrerent fonts and changing the text size but
none affected the display.
Is there a way to turn off the framebuffer for the commandline
short of rebuilding the kernel which I haven't gotten to work yet?
Thanks,
Mike

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:38:46PM +0200, Siard wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
> > On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128
> > which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80?
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
>
> Select font and font size.
>
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Hi Chris,

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:45:17PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote:
> Mike McClain <mike.junk@nethere.com> wrote:
> > On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128
> > which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80?
>
> When you say "the command line" do you mean in a terminal window within
> the GUI or do you mean on a non-GUI console?
>
> If it's the latter, try changing /etc/default/console-setup so that
> FONTFACE="Fixed" and FONTSIZE="13". Or some other variant to suit. Run
> setupcon to test out your changes.

I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console.

I changed /etc/default/console-setup from:
FONTFACE="VGA"
FONTSIZE="32x16"
to:
FONTFACE="Fixed"
FONTSIZE="18"
and reran setupcon but still have a 42x128 screen.
I tried
SCREEN_WIDTH=80
SCREEN_HEIGHT=25
in /etc/default/console-setup and ended up with only the upper left of the screen being used.

Other suggestions?

Thanks for trying,
Mike
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On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:

> I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console.
>
> I changed /etc/default/console-setup from:
> FONTFACE="VGA"
> FONTSIZE="32x16"
> to:
> FONTFACE="Fixed"
> FONTSIZE="18"
> and reran setupcon but still have a 42x128 screen.

Fixed fonts have an upper limit to their size of 16. Anything larger and
you need to use the Terminus font. 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' will
show what's on offer. Run 'setupcon' after using it.


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Hi Brian,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:28:18AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
>
> > I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console.
<snip>
> Fixed fonts have an upper limit to their size of 16. Anything larger and
> you need to use the Terminus font. 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' will
> show what's on offer. Run 'setupcon' after using it.

Thanks that fixed it. I chose Terminus 20x10 and got 38x102 char screen,
much easier to read.
Back in '04 I wrote a little script to cycle through all the fonts
available in the system using setfont or consolechars to set and display
the font and as I recall there were a bunch of fonts >40? yet console-setup
offers only a few. Is that because for the frame buffer or what?

I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Mike
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