From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 7:24:31 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 07:24:29 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.sc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E0737B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 07:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail7.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:24:23 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f02FOtw43555; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:24:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:24:55 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: j mckitrick Cc: "Donald J . Maddox" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more rows on my console? Message-ID: <20010102102455.A43511@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: j mckitrick , "Donald J . Maddox" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20001230202954.A5515@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001230153638.A1419@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20001231145932.B12295@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001231142541.B329@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010102151125.C27487@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010102151125.C27487@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:11:25PM +0000 Return-Receipt-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess I misunderstood your original question? Are you referring to Xconsole here? The way to get more rows in any window in X is to resize the window :) The 'vidcontrol' command only affects vtys. On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:11:25PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:25:41PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > | On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:59:32PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > | > | # vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 (or some other 8x8 font - must be 8x8! ) > | > | # vidcontrol MODE (where MODE is one of the modes you got from > | > | 'vidcontrol -i mode') > | > > | > I guess this is the problem. My wterm window has a gread 7x14 font. 8x8 > | > just doesn't look as good. > | > | Since there are no 7x14 fonts in the /usr/share/syscons/fonts dir, and > | since as far as I can tell, syscons only supports 8x8, 8x14, and 8x16 > | font sizes, I'm not sure how to interpret this. Is it a typo? I have > | to assume that 'wterm' is a typo too, right? > > I use xterm and wterm. Wterm has better default fonts, and makes for a > great mutt mailreading window on my laptop. But the syscons can't show as > much text info. According to the wterm man page, the default font is 7x14. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message