I’m using Fedora30 on my laptop, but the characters on screen is too small when I get into the CLI by typing Ctrl + Alt + F3(or other numbers). So I tried to change the font following instructions as:
in shell, type the command: setfont /lib/kbd/consolefonts/ter-m32n.psf.gz
It worked well, ONLY until I turned my laptop off.
In /etc/sysconfig/i18n, define SYSFONT=“ter-m32n”(actually my OS does not have this file, so I made it, which I don’t know that is helpful.)
In /etc/vconsole.conf, set the line which starts with FONT=<whatever_font> as FONT=“ter-m32”
and then later, I read the article(Hwo to increase the size of tty font - #2 by nightromantic) and followed the instructions. But it STILL failed.
Can someone please help me(and my eyes)? I cannot find other solutions to this problem.
P S Oh, and the most big font in my device is ter-m32n, but a little bit bigger thing would be nice. Do you have any recommendations, or any other solution for sizing up character size on screen?
The thing that should permanently help you is described in the post you’ve linked to in the Setting font as the default console font section points 4 through 6.
As far as I know, vconsole.conf sets font only for virtual console – i.e. what you see inside a terminal applications in a graphical environment.
The easiest / surest way to set font for terminal consoles - i.e. ttys accessed with [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F3] etc. is by setting font as kernel boot parameter – and I’ve described how to do it in that post.
I personally use it to increase font size and to display my native language’s symbols properly.
If that didn’t work for you – let’s check together why – as it’s sure work for me (for a several years now).
Thanks for feedback! I tried once more as you said. My settings for it is as:
In /etc/vconsole.conf FONT="/lib/kbd/consolefonts/ter-m32n.psf.gz"
In /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=/dev/mapper/fedora-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rhgb quiet vconsole.font=/lib/kbd/consolefonts/ter-m32n.p sf.gz"
and finally type this command sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
I first tried only with font name, ‘ter-m32n’ and then tried again with the absolute path of the font(/lib/kbd/consolefonts/ter-m32n.psf.gz). Both way failed.
In my vconsole.conf and /etc/default/grub I specify font name without path or file extension. Example in man vconsole.conf is the same, without filepath and extension. I suggest you try the same.
I’m sorry to be late. I recently changed the setting you said, and it worked! I guess that rvconsole, not vconsole was the point. Anyway, now I can read on my console clearly. Thanks a lot!
