Re: Configuring wsfb using xorg.conf

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Riza Dindir wrote:

> But is it possible to download other fonts from somewhere? I could put
> these into the /usr/share/wscons/fonts directory and could have a
> console that has smaller fonts at the end of the boot process.

Both TTF fonts and BDF fonts can be used if you convert them into WSFont
format first. There are 2 utilities, bdfload & ttf2wsfont, available in
/usr/xsrc/local/programs/ which'll do this--if you compile them first.

> Would it be possible to use the spleen* fonts from within wscons? I
> think that would be possible.

Absolutely:

$ tail -n6 /etc/wscons.conf
# Change VT font
font   spleen  12      24      iso     /usr/share/wscons/fonts/spleen-12x24.fnt
setvar ttyE0   font            spleen
setvar ttyE1   font            spleen
setvar ttyE2   font            spleen
setvar ttyE3   font            spleen
$

-RVP