Re: Increase mc fontsize ?

Nate Bargmann composed on 2026-01-08 08:55 (UTC-0600):

> In Debian I resolved this by setting a nice console font:

> dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

> Select your preferred encoding, I use UTF-8.

> Select the character set, Latin 1 and Latin 5 for me in the USA.

> Select the font for the console, I chose TerminusBold.

> Select the font size, I chose 11x22 (framebuffer only).

> Afterward, my /etc/default/console-setup has these lines:

> CHARMAP="UTF-8"

> CODESET="Lat15"
> FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
> FONTSIZE="11x22"

> This avoids setting video modes via ... the kernel command line
> which may effect X11/Wayland later on.

That won't happen. Video= has been with us since the advent of KMS, and has no
reason to be changed. Its use is a simple change at every Grub menu via E key
strike, such as may be desirable when a different display or displays are
connected, and simple to determine the impact - you pick a resolution, and the
system provides a suitable font. Whereas for console-setup, determining which
sizes are available in what faces in what codeset is a zoo for which guessing
games are required.

OTOH, if console-setup was sophisticated enough to offer fonts from which to
select, I'd use it.
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