console fonts

Cary cary at SDF.org
Sun May 31 05:47:13 UTC 2015


Cary wrote:
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have FreeBSD 9.3R-p13 running on this desktop box, running XFCE & using rxvt
>> shells as my CLI of choice. Everything is working well. Whenever I want to pkg
>> upgrade, I drop out of XFCE back to the console. The font there is not ideal for
>> the CLI work I do there. It appears to give about 80 chars/line & 25 lines on
>> the screen. The fonts I use under rxvt give more like 50-55 lines per
>> (maximized) screen. Where can I go to change that console font to something more
>> to my liking ? TIA & have a good one.
>>
>>
> Hi William.
>
> vidfont(1) will change fonts on the console.
>
> Good luck,
> Cary.
>

 >
Hi William.

vidfont(1) will change fonts on the console.

Good luck,
Cary.
-- 
cary at sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org


------------------------------


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list