Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 11:55:41 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: console fonts Message-ID: <20150531115541.dc2a9282.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <556A7BC7.6040309@hiwaay.net> References: <556A7BC7.6040309@hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, 30 May 2015 22:17:18 -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I have FreeBSD 9.3R-p13 running on this desktop box, running XFCE & > using rxvt shells as my CLI of choice. Everything is working well. > Whenever I want to pkg upgrade, I drop out of XFCE back to the console. > The font there is not ideal for the CLI work I do there. It appears to > give about 80 chars/line & 25 lines on the screen. Not "about", it's _exactly_ 80x25 (initially 80x24) in text mode. That is _the_ standard default normal regular usual textmode size. Thank you, Herr Hollerith. :-) > The fonts I use under > rxvt give more like 50-55 lines per (maximized) screen. Where can I go > to change that console font to something more to my liking ? You can use vidcontrol to set a mode different than 80x25, like 90x43 or 132x30. You can also load a different font. To make the setting permanent, you can configure things via /etc/rc.conf. See "man vidcontrol" for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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