DOSEMU >
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/ or thereabouts
The DOS-style font for X, taken from DOSEMU.
vga.pcf
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See also 9x15 versus DOSEMU's vga font
- 2016-03-27, on Slackware 14.1 within xterm 7.6.0(297)
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2016-03-26, on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS probably within xterm (version not recorded)
- Probably also with many other terminal emulators.
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2010-01-01 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta1, updated 2009-12-28.
2010-01-01 ∞
unicode vga refused to work.. it was appearing in the list of options, but it didn't look right.
But I got the older non-unicode vga font to work.. but it will only work for xterm.
FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts/misc/ \cp vga.pcf.gz $FONTDIR \cd $FONTDIR \mkfontscale \mkfontdir \fc-cache \xset fp rehash \xset fp+ $FONTDIR
I didn't restart X, I just exited my terminals and started them up again.
This works for xterm, but this font doesn't appear for Terminal
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Earliest ∞
I manually separated vga.pcf.gz
from the DOSEmu package.
Linux Font Installation:
# Some very new systems: # echo "use the KDE control panel to install this." # echo "as root, run drakfont" # :<<EXIT # Some distributions allow this: # FONTDIR=~/.fonts # Maybe this is XOrg, but it's for newer X installations: FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts/misc/ # Standard X11 stuff, works ok on Slackware 8.0 etc.: # FONTDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/ cp vga.pcf.gz $FONTDIR cd $FONTDIR mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache echo Now restart X
Notes ∞
- Bold fonts are hard on the eyes. Consider a terminal that lets you disable bolding, or at least edit .bashrc to change your LS_COLORS to not use bold (e.g. 01;32 becomes 00;32)
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A great alternative is the standard 9x15 font.
Last updated 2020-02-02 at 13:15:59