Setting a larger console font on Ubuntu Linux 12.04.
To do this first get to a text console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login with your username ↦ password, then type this command to set a larger font.
setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz |
This is a nice large font and is more readable if you are on a 1920*1080 or higher screen and the default console font is too small. If that is still too small and you want something larger, then this command below will set a larger font.
setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz |
This is a copy of my /etc/default/console-setup file. This defines the properties of the text console and custom fonts may be defined here.
# Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing VERBOSE_OUTPUT="no" # Setup these consoles. Most people do not need to change this. ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" # Put here your encoding. Valid charmaps are: UTF-8 ARMSCII-8 CP1251 # CP1255 CP1256 GEORGIAN-ACADEMY GEORGIAN-PS IBM1133 ISIRI-3342 # ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4 ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-6 # ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-9 ISO-8859-10 ISO-8859-11 ISO-8859-13 # ISO-8859-14 ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-16 KOI8-R KOI8-U TIS-620 VISCII CHARMAP="UTF-8" # The codeset determines which symbols are supported by the font. # Valid codesets are: Arabic Armenian CyrAsia CyrKoi CyrSlav Ethiopian # Georgian Greek Hebrew Lao Lat15 Lat2 Lat38 Lat7 Thai Uni1 Uni2 Uni3 # Vietnamese. Read README.fonts for explanation. CODESET="Lat15" # Valid font faces are: VGA (sizes 8, 14 and 16), Terminus (sizes # 12x6, 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBold (sizes # 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 14 # and 16) and Fixed (sizes 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18). Only when # CODESET=Ethiopian: Goha (sizes 12, 14 and 16) and # GohaClassic (sizes 12, 14 and 16). # Set FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to empty strings if you want setupcon to # set up the keyboard but to leave the console font unchanged. #FONTFACE="VGA" #FONTSIZE="16" # You can also directly specify nonstandard font or console map to load. # Use space as separator if you want to load more than one font. # You can use FONT_MAP in order to specify the Unicode map of the font # in case the font doesn't have it embedded. FONT='Lat7-TerminusBold-28x14.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf' # FONT_MAP=/usr/share/consoletrans/lat9u.uni # CONSOLE_MAP=/usr/local/share/consoletrans/my_special_encoding.acm # You can also specify a screen size that setupcon will enforce. This can not # exceed what the current screen resolution can display according to the size of # the loaded font. # # SCREEN_WIDTH=80 # SCREEN_HEIGHT=25 if [ -f /etc/default/keyboard ]; then . /etc/default/keyboard fi ###################################################################### # You can remove the lines that follow. They contain the contents of # this file before version 1.47 of console-setup. ###################################################################### # # A configuration file for setupcon # # # Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing # VERBOSE_OUTPUT=no # # # Setup these consoles. Most people do not need to change this. # ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" # # # Put here your encoding. Valid charmaps are: UTF-8 ARMSCII-8 CP1251 # # CP1255 CP1256 GEORGIAN-ACADEMY GEORGIAN-PS IBM1133 ISIRI-3342 # # ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4 ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-6 # # ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-9 ISO-8859-10 ISO-8859-11 ISO-8859-13 # # ISO-8859-14 ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-16 KOI8-R KOI8-U TIS-620 VISCII # CHARMAP="UTF-8" # # # The codeset determines which symbols are supported by the font. # # Valid codesets are: Arabic Armenian CyrAsia CyrKoi CyrSlav Ethiopian # # Georgian Greek Hebrew Lao Lat15 Lat2 Lat38 Lat7 Thai Uni1 Uni2 Uni3 # # Vietnamese. Read README.fonts for explanation. # CODESET="Lat15" # # # Valid font faces are: VGA (sizes 8, 14 and 16), Terminus (sizes # # 12x6, 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBold (sizes # # 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 14 # # and 16), Fixed (sizes 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18), Goha (sizes 12, 14 and # # 16), GohaClassic (sizes 12, 14 and 16). # FONTFACE="VGA" # FONTSIZE="16" # # # You can also directly specify nonstandard font and ACM to load. # # Use space as separator if you want to load more than one font. # # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz /usr/local/share/brailefonts/brl-08.psf' # # ACM=/usr/local/share/consoletrans/my_special_encoding.acm # # # # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same # # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options # # in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. # XKBMODEL="pc105" # XKBLAYOUT="us" # XKBVARIANT="" # XKBOPTIONS="" # |