Change TTY font size in Opensuse Aeon

Hi Friends,

I am giving Aeon a try on my laptop after using Tumbleweed for a while. Unforunately the TPM module on my laptop is just behind the encryption spec so I have to use fallback. The fallback screen (and also the ttys) are tiny, and I don’t seem to be able to change this.

I attempted to change this to solar24x32.psfu.gz by doing the following:

sudo transactional-update shell
vi /etc/vconsole.conf

then setting

FONT=/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/solar24x32.psfu.gz

then

exit
sudo transactional-update reboot

This unfortunately did not apply it properly, though it did appear after entering the passkey. Worse I could not login to my gnome desktop as it got stuck on a boot loop. It couldn’t start the gnome-shell which there were some journal logs for but I don’t think it did what I intended anyway. I have since reinstalled.

Is there something I’m missing here? Or a more reliable way of doing what I need to do?