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选题: 20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size
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[#]: via: (https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-change-linux-console-font-type-and-size/)
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How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size
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It is quite easy to change the text font type and its size if you have graphical desktop environment. How would you do that in an Ubuntu headless server that doesn’t have a graphical environment? No worries! This brief guide describes how to change Linux console font and size. This can be useful for those who don’t like the default font type/size or who prefer different fonts in general.
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### Change Linux Console Font Type And Size
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Just in case you don’t know yet, this is how a headless Ubuntu Linux server console looks like.
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Ubuntu Linux console
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As far as I know, we can [**list the installed fonts**][3], but there is no option to change the font type or its size from Linux console as we do in the Terminal emulators in GUI desktop.
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But that doesn’t mean that we can’t change it. We still can change the console fonts.
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If you’re using Debian, Ubuntu and other DEB-based systems, you can use **“console-setup”** configuration file for **setupcon** which is used to configure font and keyboard layout for the console. The standard location of the console-setup configuration file is **/etc/default/console- setup**.
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Now, run the following command to setup font for your Linux console.
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$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
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Choose the encoding to use on your Linux console. Just leave the default values, choose OK and hit ENTER to continue.
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Choose encoding to set on the console in Ubuntu
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Next choose the character set that should be supported by the console font from the list. By default, it was the the last option i.e. **Guess optimal character set** in my system. Just leave it as default and hit ENTER key.
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Choose character set in Ubuntu
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Next choose the font for your console and hit ENTER key. Here, I am choosing “TerminusBold”.
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Choose font for your Linux console
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In this step, we choose the desired font size for our Linux console.
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Choose font size for your Linux console
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After a few seconds, the selected font with size will applied for your Linux console.
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This is how console fonts looked like in my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server before changing the font type and size.
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This is after changing the font type and size.
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As you can see, the text size is much bigger, better and the font type is different that default one.
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You can also directly edit **/etc/default/console-setup** file and set the font type and size as you wish. As per the following example, my Linux console font type is “Terminus Bold” and font size is 32.
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ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
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CHARMAP="UTF-8"
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CODESET="guess"
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FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
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FONTSIZE="16x32"
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```
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* * *
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**Suggested read:**
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* [**How To Switch Between TTYs Without Using Function Keys In Linux**][10]
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* * *
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##### Display Console fonts
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To show your console font, simply type:
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$ showconsolefont
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This command will show a table of glyphs or letters of a font.
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Show console fonts
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If your Linux distribution does not have “console-setup”, you can get it from [**here**][12].
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On Linux distributions that uses **Systemd** , you can change the console font by editing **“/etc/vconsole.conf”** file.
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Here is an example configuration for German keyboard.
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$ vi /etc/vconsole.conf
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KEYMAP=de-latin1
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FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
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```
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Hope you find this useful.
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via: https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-change-linux-console-font-type-and-size/
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作者：[sk][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[2]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ubuntu-Linux-console.png
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[3]: https://www.ostechnix.com/find-installed-fonts-commandline-linux/
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[4]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-encoding-to-set-on-the-console.png
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[5]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-character-set-in-Ubuntu.png
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[6]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-font-for-Linux-console.png
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[7]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-font-size-for-Linux-console.png
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[8]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Linux-console-tty-ubuntu-1.png
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[9]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ubuntu-Linux-TTY-console.png
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[10]: https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-switch-between-ttys-without-using-function-keys-in-linux/
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[11]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/show-console-fonts.png
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[12]: https://software.opensuse.org/package/console-setup
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