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How to change resolution of virtual terminal?

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How can I rescale the Linux virtual terminals (ctrl + alt + {f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6}), so that a high-resolution display doesn't make the letters too small?

I'd like to use 1080 or even 720 resolution in virtual terminals (and only there; I want native resolution in ctrl + alt + f7).

If that matters, I use Debian Trixie.

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This isn't exactly what you asked, but the letters-too-small problem could also be solved by using a larger console font.

Here is a decent overview of how to change console fonts, though I don't know which of the console-setup and the vconsole.conf approaches is correct for your distribution.

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Can't make it much larger with this approach (5 comments)
Can't make it much larger with this approach
alx‭ wrote 6 months ago

My default font is 8x16, and the largest one I can choose is 8x18. which I don't think will make much of a difference. Also, will it change the rectangle size, or will it just have less space between letters? That might even be negative to readability.

r~~‭ wrote 6 months ago

On Debian Trixie, if you have the console-setup-linux package installed, the files in that package include terminal fonts of sizes up to 16x32.

And yes, the character grid is changed, not just the glyph sizes. A 16x32 font would be utterly unusable if it were otherwise.

alx‭ wrote 6 months ago · edited 6 months ago

Yes, as @Canina pointed out, I was trying to keep the Fixed font. I didn't check that other fonts had more sizes. It is indeed the simplest solution.

Quasímodo‭ wrote 6 months ago

Try setfont -d.

alx‭ wrote 5 months ago

Quasímodo‭ I get an error:

setfont: ERROR setfont.c:402 kfont_load_font: Cannot find default font