I gave up trying to convince opensuse to set a default console font I can actually
read without a magnifying glass on my laptop a LONG time ago. But since I boot to
runlevel 3, it used to be easy to fix it in my ~/.bash_profile with:
setfont ter-v28b.psfu.gz
But that doesn’t work anymore.
I did a:
zypper se font
But the only font package that I can find where says it can be used on the “Linux Console”
is the “terminus-bitmap-fonts” package of which:
zypper if terminus-bitmap-fonts
says is already installed. But I can’t find the terminus fonts. Or any other font
that setfont can use.
> it used to be easy to fix it in my ~/.bash_profile with:
>
> setfont ter-v28b.psfu.gz
>
But that doesn’t work anymore.
> zypper if terminus-bitmap-fonts
>
says is already installed. But I can’t find the terminus fonts. Or any other font
that setfont can use.
What am I missing here?
My problem with the console font… It is solved!
There are two things that should have been obvious to me but weren’t.
I plead CRS* see below.
Since the tool I was using was setfont, I shoulda
man setfont
which listed it’s default font dir as /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts
Why I couldn’t find it, I don’t know…
I also have Opensuse 13.2 on my desktop. And a quick check of my profile there
shows that when I upgraded the desktop I musta found the font dir to figure out that
the font name had changed from ter-v28b.psfu.gz to just ter-v28b.psfu
Presumably the fonts used to be zipped, and now they aren’t?
So since it’s obvious that I found that font dir on my desktop, less than 3 months
ago. It all comes back to CRS. What is CRS you might ask…
*CRS:
CRS : “Can’t Remember Sh^Htuff” : In my case this means that unless I
do something the same way every day for a LONG time, or have examples
of how I did it before (where I can still find them), I usually wind up
scratching my head the next time I need to do a non-daily task. Or for
that matter, to remember what I was doing before the durned phone rang etc…
> 2) I also have Opensuse 13.2 on my desktop. And a quick check of my profile there
> shows that when I upgraded the desktop I musta found the font dir to figure out that
> the font name had changed from ter-v28b.psfu.gz to just ter-v28b.psfu
> Presumably the fonts used to be zipped, and now they aren’t?
I have 13.1. I don’t have that particular font. Most of the font files I
have are compressed, but a few are not.
