Terminus console-fonts the EASY way!

[nanZor]

For those times when you want to live outside the DE, and use text-mode, such as switching to a virtual terminal via CTRL-ALT-F1/F2 etc and would like to work with a larger font size. These are not X11 fonts, but straight-up text mode. Terminus fonts are always popular with me.

1) Went to this site and chose to look for terminus fonts, and used the Slackware 15 sets. As of today, I downloaded the terminus-font-4.49.1-noarch-3.txz package.

https://pkgs.org

2) Converted the slackware txz to the Porteus xzm format from within the file manager by right-clicking.

3) Activated the new terminus xzm package (right click) again, and they got installed to:
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts

4) Got into a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-f2) for example, and from that directory issue a huge setfont command for grampa eyes: (use your own path method). CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to X11.

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setfont ./ter-232b.psf.gz

BLAM! Wow, things like top, mc, mcedit, vi, and even lynx look great. I often use lynx to look inward with a period (lynx .) as a simple file browser.

Your locale or preference: Read the terminus docs in the package to find out which set you like. Engrampa or other unarchivers can easily find this in the xzm. My set seems to be starting with 2, as in the above ter-232b.psf.gz

Extra credit: Instead of loading up the whole xzm module, I suppose you could install, save and remove the ones you don't need, and manually reintroduce them, and perhaps even on startup. For me, I can afford the ram, and simply slack (ahem) it by loading it as an entire module.

This reads like a lot, but very simple once you do it.