To set a different font for your text console, just run setfont. E.g, setfont /usr/share/kbd/suse12x22.psfu.gz. This sets a lovely console font that works quite well at 1280×1024 pixels resolution. Very nice indeed and you can just type ls to list the large list of
available fonts. For Fedora Core 5 & 6 you need to type /lib/kbd/consolefonts/cybercafe.psf.gz.
On Ubuntu, the console fonts are in the folder /usr/share/consolefonts/. Set a custom font temporarily with this command for example.
(base) jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-VGA32x16.psf.gz |
Setting the console font in Ubuntu.
You can set the console font by running sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup to modify the settings. This will set a permanent console font on your Ubuntu server.
(base) jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup [sudo] password for jason: update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-131-generic |
Once this is done, your machine will look quite different! And personalized. And everyone likes to customize the look of their machine, A perfect virtual console is achieved with the aforementioned console font and a 1280×1024 resolution. especially running screen I have the date and time in the bottom right of the screen. Great looking screen and better than the first command prompt screen I ever used which was an 8086 with MSDOS 3.0 (shudder.) Then I had a 286 then a 486 and a Celeron 600. Redhat GNU/Linux 6.2 I tried on it once worked very well and was better and faster to install
than Windows ’98 which needed countless CD swapping to install drivers. Redhat GNU/Linux 6.2 was installed in one go from the CD and I rebooted into the graphical chooser. The first ever computer I used was a TRS-80 and then a Tandy 1000. It was amazing what you could do with a TRS-80. It had a 1.77 MHZ CPU and 4 – 48 kilobytes of RAM. It used a cassette drive to load programs and it even had productivity applications and games. Amazing for 1977.