changing console fonts?

Kurt Wall kwall
Fri May 6 19:29:13 PDT 2005


On Friday 06 May 2005 10:43, Mike Reinehr enlightened us thusly:
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:24 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 May 2005 18:04, Mike Reinehr enlightened us thusly:
> > > 	I don't remember where, but I do remember reading that you can
> > > not change your selection without rebooting.
> >
> > You read incorrectly, then. fbset (provided you're using a
> > framebuffer driver for the console) does precisely this without
> > rebooting.
> >
> > Kurt
>
> No, but I very likely _remembered_ incorrectly. Going back to the
> very How-To that I recommended to Net Llama, it clearly mentions
> changing fonts & modes in paragraphs 15 & 16. Mea culpa.

My reply read more bluntly than I intended. Sorry. I meant to imply
that there is a lot of incorrect information out there...

Kurt


More information about the Linux-users mailing list