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My fonts are way to small in my linux terminal

I have a terminal (alt f6) and the font is too small. I already know about export TERM=VT100 however how to I set it for a larger font ?

I am going blind here :)

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nedvis

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bitmechanic

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This is not working for me. I am running Suse.

I have a virtual Terminal and the font is painfully small

Duncan Roe

nedvis's solution works for an xterm. You could start an xterm from your console. SUSE should have a configuration setting somewhere for its own VT - but I don't use SUSE myself so can only guess where - maybe right-button in the title bar?
Xterm command line gives you option to set font at startup, e.g. "-font 7x14" or "-font 10x20".

bitmechanic

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That does work in a terminal and it is good.

What I am trying to do is a "control Alt f6" to get to a full screen and then change the font in there.

I want the change the font in the "big screen".

bitmechanic

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Back in the day I think this was handled in lilo

Today this distro and others run grub. I could be wrong about being handled by the boot stuff though.

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Duncan Roe

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bitmechanic

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Duncan:

Sorry I did not explain it very well.

I will try this.

I did learn a lot about xterm though :)

Thanks !