Changing console font.

Console font is huge. I see the font variable in rc.conf, but not sure what to do to make it smaller. All the font names look like gibberish, and I don't want a new font. I just want this font smaller, so that the screen can show more than 25 lines at a time.

Add vga=*** to your grub menu.lst. It should look like this:
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=789
You can change the vga number to whatever you want.

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What changed with console fonts?

Yesterday I did an upgrade for the first time in three months. Everything went fine except I lost my lat9-16 console fonts as stated to use in /etc/rc.conf. I just get questionmarks instead, which indicates the font file cannot be found by the system. No panic, I just use default fonts instead. But I want to know what changed from three months ago. Thanks.
Last edited by Abakaba (2009-03-24 14:23:05)

pacman.log will tell you what was updated. It's generally a lot easier to determine which package did something if there are only a few package upgrades, rather than hundreds.

Can v change the font of the str displayed on the console?

hi,
Is it possible to change the font, size of the str displayed on the DOS prompt?
regards,
Deepa Raghuraman

no, the Windows DOS shell utility sets the font. The System console is not for GUI displaying (and font is also a GUI component).

[Forum FAQ]Solution for Windows PowerShell console font issue when changing system locale

Issue description
After changing Windows System Locale to another country, users cannot modify Windows PowerShell console font to Lucida after modifying the font settings. There is also a potential bug report in Microsoft connect:
https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/806286/powershell-4-console-font-issue
Reason
In most situations, this problem is caused by system locale is changed to other countries from United States, such as Chinese, French, etc. Because of this change, the code page and font of Windows PowerShell console might be changed with system locale.
For Example, if change system locale to Chinese (Simplified China), Windows PowerShell console
(%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools) properties would be changed like this:
Solution
To resolve this problem, please follow the steps below:
Access to the path below to find the shortcut of Windows PowerShell:
%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools.
Right click Windows PowerShell and choose Properties.
Switch to Options, check if Current code page list there, if that it is, choose
437 (OEM-United States) and click Apply. Maybe you will encounter an
Access Deniedpop-up as the following picture. Then you need take ownership of current PowerShell File, switch to
Security Tab and obtain full control permission for current User Account.
Note: if Current code page was not list there, just leave alone
Options settings and switch to Font Tab.
Switch to Font Tab, choose the font you wished to use, click
Apply.
After the above settings, current Windows PowerShell console font should works as you wished.
Applies to
Windows PowerShell 3.0
Windows PowerShell 4.0
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Cause
This issue is due to the bootmgr file, we cannot use the bootmgr file of Windows 7 to find the Windows 8 Operating System files.
The Windows 7 bootmgr can indeed boot Windows 8.
This is on a BIOS system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVO5aeaKeeE
This is on a UEFI system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3-K6Fyobz0
The Windows 8 bootmgr partially loads Windows 8 before offering the boot menu. By choosing Windows 7, the system must do a reboot. Using the Windows 7 bootmgr, no reboot is required.
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Console font size in console mode Arch x86_64

hi
i do fresh install Archlinux 2013 x86_64. so i see some change btwin that and 2011, any way , everythings work OK, fast (KDE) but sometime i need work in console mode (ctrl+alt+f1) but i cant change resolution of console font, because now is settingsome basic and so big. i have nvidia card and drivers. i try read ths https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb but i cant find some solutions how setting everything with grub2 etc. in my old laptop i have arch 2011 and grub1 but everything work OK include console font, that was much better to setting, in that arch i cant find any working solution, so please help me if somebody know about this.
thanks
Last edited by H20 (2013-03-01 20:44:07)

[ 15.458823] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[ 15.458830] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[ 15.458834] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[ 15.458838] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[ 15.458841] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
I suspect that it's still the case. You may even have this message in your own dmesg.
Switch console to VGA mode and use xterm instead.
This has nothing to do with resolution setting in a framebuffer, which is what the title of the thread suggests.
I'm pretty sure it does - it looks like the console is being switched to VGA text mode; nvidia has no reason to touch fonts.
Last edited by mich41 (2013-03-01 21:40:35)

Using a javascript to change the font size used by the measurement tool

A couple years ago I saw a javascript written that would allow me to chang the font size used by the measurement tool in Acrobat 9. When the IT department deliverd my new laptop with Acrobat X Pro, they had wiped out the script and I am not expert enough to recreate it from scratch. Any suggestions? I believe it was in an older post by Dave Merchant, but I truly can't find the post or a way to recreate the script. Thanks for any help.

Executing this code from the JS console will change the font size of all the Measurement annotations to 20. You can change the value in the first line to use a different font size:
var newTextSize = 20;
this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
for (var i in annots) {
    var annot = annots[i];
    if (annots[i].type=="Line") {
        var richText = annot.richContents;
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Restoring default console font size

I recently performed a long overdue series of updates, and now I'm facing the same font size issue that was discussed in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96768
Now I've seen this page, which talks about changing the font and the size: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … fault_font
But the thing is I actually like the font, it's just the size that I'm trying to change. When the system starts to boot, the size is great. It's only after "waiting for udev uevents to be processed" has finished that the font gets tiny. So I know the right settings are somewhere in there, I just don't know where to keep them the way they are without getting changed.
I have a sneaking suspicion the fix is easy, I'm just missing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Last edited by Infrared (2012-06-03 02:49:31)

jasonwryan wrote:
Instructions for changing the default console font are on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … fault_font
As far as I can tell, the default font is called, oddly enough, default - and if you look in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts you will see only two options: 8x16 and 8x9 - use setfont to confirm.
If neither of those is large enough after KMS kicks in, you might try one of the other older school fonts in that directory.
Oddly enough, it is called default, haha. Played around with a couple of the font settings, but what wound up happening was that it would load the font, and then after ""waiting for udev uevents to be processed" finished, the font got tiny again.
So it might be a resolution thing. Will look into that.
Gusar wrote:When this comes up (this thread is by far not the first one on this subject), the reaction is always advising to change the font. Never to change the resolution. Yet another one of the weird phenomenons I find so interesting.
Suggestions on best method to do so?
Last edited by Infrared (2012-06-04 01:46:15)

Console font & screen size

Hi folks,
Is anybody aware of a way to change the font and/or the screen size when working in console mode on an x86 system? By console mode, I'm referring to an environment without X/JDS/CDE.
Cheers,
Tim

I had a hard time understanding what you mean, but to clarify: you mean that the rendered image of the screen does not fit the physical screen in some way and is cropped at the bottom? is it fine in X?
maybe you should try using a framebuffer and use another resolution for console. try to add vga=791 or something (there's a handy table in /boot/grub/menu.lst) at the end of your kernel command line.
Last edited by lloeki (2008-05-07 19:10:20)

Cannot change Console M

I just got an X-fi Xtreme Music and I installed it and everything, full install of the cd and I can't change Console (Mixer) from Audio Creation Mode to anything else (even though I installed the other modes), it'll say:
Console Launcher
The console for the current mode of your audio device cannot be launched. The console may not be installed, or may not be installed properly in your system. You may need to re-install the console.
Alternati'vely, you may choose to change the current mode of your audio device. Do you want to change the current mode of your audio device now?
Yes? No?
I even "repaired" the console and stuff and nothing, same error. Any ideas?

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Chicago"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-112n"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
EDIT: I just tried it with ter-v14b and it worked, so it must be something about the font. What's a good variation of Terminus? What are the differences between all the variations?
Last edited by fflarex (2009-02-23 19:15:11)

[SOLVED] Console Font Not Retained After Reboot

Hi, again. Happy to report that I successfully installed Arch Linux last night, with no problems whatsoever. Thanks to those who addressed my concerns. Still reading up on the package manager, user and group management, etc.
Anyway, one of the first things I noticed is that the console font gets reset after every reboot. I need to manually type "setfont Lat2-Terminus16" - which works just fine, except for the annoyance in having to do that each time I boot up. My /etc/vconsole.conf has the following:
KEYMAP=us
FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
Following the solution described here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=155876
I added 'consolefont' (without quotes) to the beginning (first item) of the HOOKS line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. Then I rebuilt the initramfs by typing "mkinitcpio -p linux". Again, no errors during the rebuild.
I've rebooted several times, but there's no change... my selected console font is not retained.
Can anyone point what I'm doing wrong, or offer ideas? Thanks.
Last edited by R0b0ty (2013-03-06 16:52:42)

Have you tried
If the fonts seems to not change on boot, or change only temporarily, it is most likely that they got reset when graphics driver was initialized and console was switched to framebuffer. To avoid this, load your graphics driver earlier. See for example KMS#Early_KMS_start or other ways to setup your framebuffer before /etc/vconsole.conf gets applied.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Examples_2

Create profile and set console font

Hi,
I'm not really a powershell expert, even though i use it daily. I've been looking into creating a profile to make life easier. So i made a little script to auto create a profile and set the console properties, load some modules etc.
The one thing i have not found an answer for is how can i set the console to use Lucinda Console font in stead of that dreadful raster font?
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights

Hi,
Thanks. I am aware of the console settings available to powershell, but thanks anyway.
So the reg settings should be stored for the current user only in the key HKCU\Console. That will only affect the logged on user. It is not dynamic, as you say, but that's ok. I just need to have it set.
So changing the following settings would change the font for CMD.exe and powershell.exe:
REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FaceName /d "Lucida Console" /f
REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FontSize /t REG_DWORD /d 0x000c0000 /f
REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FontWeight /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000190 /f
REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FontFamily /t REG_DWORD /d 0x36 /f
Push-Location
Set-Location HKCU:\Console
New-Item ".\%SystemRoot%_system32_WindowsPowerShell_v1.0_powershell.exe"
Set-Location ".\%SystemRoot%_system32_WindowsPowerShell_v1.0_powershell.exe"
New-ItemProperty . FaceName -type STRING -value "Lucida Console"
New-ItemProperty . FontFamily -type DWORD -value 0x00000036
New-ItemProperty . FontSize -type DWORD -value 0x000c0000
New-ItemProperty . FontWeight -type DWORD -value 0x00000190
New-ItemProperty . HistoryNoDup -type DWORD -value 0x00000000
New-ItemProperty . QuickEdit -type DWORD -value 0x00000001
Pop-Location
Push-Location
Set-Location HKCU:\Console
New-Item '.\%SystemRoot%_SysWOW64_WindowsPowerShell_v1.0_powershell.exe'
Set-Location '.\%SystemRoot%_SysWOW64_WindowsPowerShell_v1.0_powershell.exe'
New-ItemProperty . FaceName -type STRING -value "Lucida Console"
New-ItemProperty . FontFamily -type DWORD -value 0x00000036
New-ItemProperty . FontSize -type DWORD -value 0x000c0000
New-ItemProperty . FontWeight -type DWORD -value 0x00000190
New-ItemProperty . HistoryNoDup -type DWORD -value 0x00000000
New-ItemProperty . QuickEdit -type DWORD -value 0x00000001
Pop-Location
So, that should've done the trick. I can open cmd.exe and powershell.exe, open the system menu, go to defaults, and verify that the settings are in fact set. However, the settings just doesn't take effect. I even opened the properties dialog box for the
PowerShell shortcut, to check the settings and I can still confirm that it had set the font correctly.
Still, whenever I launch PowerShell, I am greeted with the ugly raster font. So, the last check I did was to go into properties in the PowerShell window system menu, and check the font.
It was set to raster. So I changed it. The next time I opened PowerShell, it was back to raster.
So, no matter where I set it, or what I set, it still goes back to raster every da** time.
Where i come from, we call this a bug... A very annoying bug...
Edit: Btw, this is only happening on a handful of servers, not all. On some i am able to successfully script changing the font.
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[SOLVED]console fonts

I am trying to test various console fonts as discussed here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts
Testing console fonts, ie:
$ setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/gr737b-9x16-medieval.psfu.gz
has no effect.
showconsolefont gives:
$ showconsolefont
PIO_UNISCRNMAP: Operation not permitted
cannot change translation table
What do I need to change so that I can test consolefonts? Thanks.
Last edited by kekules_dream (2010-06-18 12:45:36)

How silly of me. This works fine
if you are in the console!
Please disregard.

How can I change the font when creating an e-mail in Outlook's web-mail mode?

I am new to Firefox. When I go to a web-mail server, I can click on sending a new message. While there, I cannot find any way to change the font, font size, or color of the text. All of these options were available in a toolbar at the top of the message window when I am using Internet Explorer 9 or IE8. I have looked through all of the help files provided by Firefox, and found nothing about changing fonts, etc.
Thanks for trying to help

Hi Jaime,
Are you saying, you are getting junk characters in the email attachment? Then pls check the following. Since you want to send Japanese fonts, please pass language 'J' in both objpack-obj_langu = '3' & doc_chng-obj_langu = '3' instead of '3' please replace it with 'J'.
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I want to change the font color of a text field in a table (single cell only) on pressing a key combination. Does anybody know how to do this.
I have a lot of data in a table. During an evaluation of the data in a meeting I want to change the color of the text depending on the result of the meeting. (for example: High risk = CTRL+R makes the text red).
I know how to change the color using a button, but I do not want to add a button after each cell. For this reason I would like to do it on a key combination that alway refers to the active cell.
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As for missing or deranged files or folders, was there something that I should have done or now need to do to recover those after the upgrade (or before)?
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