Re: Vitual Terminal Font

In alt.os.linux.ubuntu, Chris Game had the audacity to say that:
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> On 28 Aug 2007 21:16:23 GMT, Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
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>> I am typing this with my default slrn editor (joe) from a virtual
>> console, and the font is very large (about 8 char/inch) but does
>> not render some ascii characters like the lines for the tree view
>> correctly. However, this is a recent development; when I first
>> used a virtual console after installing Kubuntu, the font was
>> small (though still readable). I don't know what I did except
>> play with the font settings in xterm and xfce-terminal. How does
>> one control the font type and size in the virtual console?[/color]
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> There's no 'properties' item in the menus of the console somewhere?
> Usually there are so many user-settable properties in Kubuntu that
> you trip over them.
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For the Virtual Console (alt-ctl 1-6) I don't know of any settings. Might
there be a script you could add to the shell profile to adjust the
font?

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On 30 Aug 2007 20:00:01 GMT, Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
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> For the Virtual Console (alt-ctl 1-6) I don't know of any
> settings. Might there be a script you could add to the shell
> profile to adjust the font?[/color]

That's interesting, I notice that when I display all the start-up
script responses instead of the splash-screen, the font on screen
changes from one size of (presumably bitmapped) font to another part
way through. I wonder how that happens?

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