From 0ca91e0a5788580e4aa0f848b9200764c4df0a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: darksun Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:59:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E9=80=89=E9=A2=98:=2020190815=20How=20To=20Cha?= =?UTF-8?q?nge=20Linux=20Console=20Font=20Type=20And=20Size?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit sources/tech/20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size.md --- ...Change Linux Console Font Type And Size.md | 143 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 143 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sources/tech/20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size.md diff --git a/sources/tech/20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size.md b/sources/tech/20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a12a0fccf --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/tech/20190815 How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size.md @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: ( ) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) +[#]: subject: (How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size) +[#]: via: (https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-change-linux-console-font-type-and-size/) +[#]: author: (sk https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/) + +How To Change Linux Console Font Type And Size +====== + +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. + +### Change Linux Console Font Type And Size + +Just in case you don’t know yet, this is how a headless Ubuntu Linux server console looks like. + +![][2] + +Ubuntu Linux console + +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. + +But that doesn’t mean that we can’t change it. We still can change the console fonts. + +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**. + +Now, run the following command to setup font for your Linux console. + +``` +$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup +``` + +Choose the encoding to use on your Linux console. Just leave the default values, choose OK and hit ENTER to continue. + +![][4] + +Choose encoding to set on the console in Ubuntu + +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. + +![][5] + +Choose character set in Ubuntu + +Next choose the font for your console and hit ENTER key. Here, I am choosing “TerminusBold”. + +![][6] + +Choose font for your Linux console + +In this step, we choose the desired font size for our Linux console. + +![][7] + +Choose font size for your Linux console + +After a few seconds, the selected font with size will applied for your Linux console. + +This is how console fonts looked like in my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server before changing the font type and size. + +![][8] + +This is after changing the font type and size. + +![][9] + +As you can see, the text size is much bigger, better and the font type is different that default one. + +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. + +``` +ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" +CHARMAP="UTF-8" +CODESET="guess" +FONTFACE="TerminusBold" +FONTSIZE="16x32" +``` + +* * * + +**Suggested read:** + + * [**How To Switch Between TTYs Without Using Function Keys In Linux**][10] + + + +* * * + +##### Display Console fonts + +To show your console font, simply type: + +``` +$ showconsolefont +``` + +This command will show a table of glyphs or letters of a font. + +![][11] + +Show console fonts + +If your Linux distribution does not have “console-setup”, you can get it from [**here**][12]. + +On Linux distributions that uses **Systemd** , you can change the console font by editing **“/etc/vconsole.conf”** file. + +Here is an example configuration for German keyboard. + +``` +$ vi /etc/vconsole.conf + +KEYMAP=de-latin1 +FONT=Lat2-Terminus16 +``` + +Hope you find this useful. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-change-linux-console-font-type-and-size/ + +作者：[sk][a] +选题：[lujun9972][b] +译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/ +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[2]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ubuntu-Linux-console.png +[3]: https://www.ostechnix.com/find-installed-fonts-commandline-linux/ +[4]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-encoding-to-set-on-the-console.png +[5]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-character-set-in-Ubuntu.png +[6]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-font-for-Linux-console.png +[7]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Choose-font-size-for-Linux-console.png +[8]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Linux-console-tty-ubuntu-1.png +[9]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Ubuntu-Linux-TTY-console.png +[10]: https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-switch-between-ttys-without-using-function-keys-in-linux/ +[11]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/show-console-fonts.png +[12]: https://software.opensuse.org/package/console-setup