Tiny terminal fonts

[jorj]

I downloaded the Zenwalk 2.6 ISO and installed Zenwalk on a spare HD. I can't do to much with the command line as the terminal font is just too small for my rheumy old eyes.
Can someone tell me what file I might explore to edit, to get something larger, that I can read easily.
The Zenwalk forums (or is it fora?) that I've tried seem to lack a search mode.

TIA 73 jorj/NJ6I

[fos]

Hi Jorj

There should be a boot "cheat code" that you can use to use a different screen resolution giving a larger font.

I will see what I can find for you.

fos...

BTW - Is this the terminal font in an X terminal or a command line font without X Window?

[fos]

Here is something you could try at the initial boot prompt:

enter the cheatcode: fb800x600

I am away from home and don't have either a Slackware disk or Zenwalk disk. I will be back home by Saturday and will be able to find something that works.

fos....

[jorj]

I found that within Zenwalk, that I could change the display very easily. It is one of the settings and there are numerous options for resolution and vert. refresh rate. During setup I selected the nvidia driver and the changes are very easy. I selected 800X600 and it changes in less than a second and gives one 12 seconds to decide if you wish to keep that. So I'm using that resolution right now and legibility is fine.
I guess I'll pose my original question on a Zenwalk forum to gauge the tenor of the responses. For courtesy, it is hard to beat the Libranet alumni.

Thanks 73 jorj/NJ6I

[bhobjj]

Most of the X terminals have a menubar where you can configure font and size.

For a login shell (non-X), you can use consolechars to change the font and size:
eg:
for a smaller font
$ consolechars -f lat4-08
large font
$ consolechars -f lat4-19
default
$ consolechars -d

The fonts are located in /usr/share/consolefonts/
If you want to change the default font, then edit /etc/console-tools/config

Also colors may help. You can enable them in ~.bashrc

-BoB

[jjmac]

Tiny fonts -=- one of the things that really gets to me at times, especially with installers.

The kind of thing that is also easily solvable, given the configuration option availability.

Unfortunately a lot of developers choose to overlook the issue.

Just to round out all the above, the appropriet vga settings for different terminal (boot) resolutions can be found in,

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt


jm