Monday, May 14, 2012

Better Console Font (in Arch)

In order to use Terminus as my console (tty) font, I simply installed the package terminus-font with pacman (includes both console and X11 versions). Then I edited the CONSOLEFONT variable in rc.conf to have the value ter-216b.

I haven't been able to enable 256 colors in console and use my monitor's native 1920x1080 resolution (the best mode hwinfo reports is 1280x720 and for some reason it doesn't seem to work either).

3 comments:

  1. Stumbled on this while googling console fonts, but you may find this useful:

    I'm assuming that the 1280x720 you are being reported by hwinfo is a result of running Arch in a VM, and probably VirtualBox.

    VirtualBox Vesa does not include such high resolutions by default, but you can define them with the VBoxManage command line utility:

    C:\Progam Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> VBoxManage setextradata "vmname" "CustomVideo1" "1920x1080x32"

    Note that "vmname" is the name of your VM, but "CustomVideo1" must be named as such (you can have 16 different numbers).

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Better Console Font (in Arch)

In order to use Terminus as my console (tty) font, I simply installed the package terminus-font with pacman (includes both console and X11 ...