Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:24:55 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more rows on my console? Message-ID: <20010102102455.A43511@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> 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 %2B0000 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>
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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
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