Console Fonts and Languages

Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Sat Apr 22 14:45:37 UTC 2006


Greetings Tony ,

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 12:47 AM +0300 4/22/06, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
>  ...
> 
>>>SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
>>
>>This is the line for the system font ( font to be used ) .
>>latarcyrheb-sun16 i think is the default font .

< snip >

> This font is used for non-X terminals (Ctl-Alt-F1..F6).  

If you boot under init level 3 then they are Alt-F1, Alt-F2 , etc whereas
if you are under X Windows they are Ctrl-Alt-F1,Ctrl-Alt-F2,etc .

In Gnome at least
> the font is according to the System > Preferences > Font setting, stored in
> gconf's data at /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name, etc.

Never used Gnome as i use KDE .  For the consoles though the
fonts are stores in /lib/kdb/consolefonts .


   Kostas





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