Mark my words, friends, someday your eyes will be decrepit and you wont be able to read those tiny fonts you coded into everything, and then youll be sorry, and I will laugh.As always, the ever-changing Linux landscape makes this less than straightforward, and font management on Linux is non-existent, so well muddle along as best we can.
![]() When I say Linux console, I mean TTY1-6, the virtual terminals that you access from your graphical desktop with CtrlAltF1 through F6. To get back to your graphical environment, press AltF7. This is no longer universal, however, and your Linux distribution may have it mapped differently. You may have more or fewer TTYs, and your graphical session may not be at F7. This is the same console you use on headless servers that have no graphical environments. I call the terminals in a graphical session X terminals, and terminal emulators is my catch-all name for both console and X terminals. There are also a number of console multimedia applications that we will talk about in a future article. Then you can use your favorite graphical screen capture program from the host system. You may also make screen captures from your console with fbcat or fbgrab. There are multiple versions of fbgrab written by different people floating around. Both have limited options and make only a full-screen capture. This example makes a screen grab just like fbcat, except you dont have to explicitly redirect. And so does configurability, which sometimes gets lost in the rush to the new-shiny. If your Linux distribution doesnt include it, there might be a package for you at openSUSE. This example sets the Terminus Bold font at 32 points, which is my favorite, and restricts the width to 80 columns. ![]() Debian Chinese Font Install Some ExtraOn my Fedora and openSUSE systems I had to install some extra Terminus packages to get the larger sizes as the installed fonts only went up to 16 points, and I wanted 32. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |