I have a Unix-like OS installed without a windowing environment; i.e., just a text-mode console and no GUI.
Is it possible to change the font used by the console?
To be clear, I am not talking about the terminal emulator that comes with a desktop environment like KDE or GNOME.
Best Answer
If you use the Linux console, the best way I found is:
in
/etc/default/console-setup
put, for example
Another way is to use
setfont
from thekbd
package:setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-Terminus28x14.psf
This works for my Debian; it may be different for you.
In Debian, you can also run
dpkg-reconfigure -plow console-setup
to be prompted for the various console settings and pick them from menus.Edit - I put together a small page how to setup the font colors. The section that is relevant for this post has the header "the Linux VTs" (= ttys, or "console").