I'm currently running Ubuntu and a few other Linux distributions on my computer and since I use the TTY a lot, a good font is pretty important!
Does anyone know the name of the default console/TTY font used in Ubuntu and Debian?
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I'm currently running Ubuntu and a few other Linux distributions on my computer and since I use the TTY a lot, a good font is pretty important!
Does anyone know the name of the default console/TTY font used in Ubuntu and Debian?
Best Answer
$ /bin/setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/FOO.psf.gz
)Technical details
The GUI font is set, for Ubuntu, in the
ubuntu-artwork
package by a default setting in/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ubuntu-artwork.gschema.override
. The change was made in Bug #865013 on2011-10-04 for Ubuntu 11.10. It's possible to query the value of this setting (the user may have overridden or changed it) with:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
'Ubuntu Mono 13'
The configuration of the Linux Terminal consoles fonts is slightly more involved; there are a limited number of slots available for characters on the framebuffer, so the best subset is selected at package install time by the code in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup.config
with the result stored in/etc/default/console-setup
.As @Chen Xiao-Long notes, the console font subsets are built-up from a myriad of bitmap fonts sourced from different places; these are fully documented in
/usr/share/doc/console-setup/copyright.fonts.gz
. When the hinting-work in Ubuntu Mono reaches a high-enough level, then hopefully it will be possible to bitmaps exported from Ubuntu Mono instead, see Bug #724022, at least for the areas where we have coverage.