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Temporary Change Font Size To Completely Fill The Console
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abushcrafter


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PostPosted: Mon 10 Sep 2012, 13:05    Post subject:  Temporary Change Font Size To Completely Fill The Console
Subject description: For a Decent CL Countdown		  
Spent a few hours on this. Best I got was setfont. setfont's hight option I have not managed to get a useful result. I am writing this for my Nano Note. Should work in puppy.
see title and the bleeping countdown bash script.
http://puppy:linux@puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/abushcrafter/scripts/Decent-CL-Countdown.tar.xz
Code:
decentclcountdown 00:02:00


tags: terminal, text, command line, sh, full screen
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SFR


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PostPosted: Mon 10 Sep 2012, 15:20    Post subject:  
I'm not sure if this is what you're trying to achieve..?

If you launch your script via this (it's one single line):
Code:
urxvt -T "Countdown" -foreground 7 -transparent +borderLess +sb -g 8x1+200+100 -fn 'xft:Deja-vu Sans:Bold:size=60' -e bash ./decentclcountdown 1

you'll get this:

(if you have urxvt in your system, of course).

PS. Change +borderLess to -borderLess to get rid of borders and to disable cursor, you need to add, for instance: tput civis or echo -e "\033[?25l" to your script.

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PostPosted: Mon 10 Sep 2012, 20:38    Post subject:  
This is not for X. Console only. Thanks for the disable cursor tip.
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PostPosted: Tue 11 Sep 2012, 17:22    Post subject:  
If you've got a working framebuffer, you could use fbterm which can handle freetype (TTF) fonts, so you can get them quite large and they still look ok.
Eg: start it with:
Code:
fbterm --font-names=LiberationMono --font-size=48

I doubt if the framebuffer is enabled on Lucid, (would need a kernel re-compile if not) but you could experiment on Akita, or Precise. I've got a vmlinuz for Wary that runs the framebuffer, if that's any help.
EDIT - I think the LiberationMono font is probably the best choice (there may be others of course) but many I've tried tend to overlap when enlarged. Might be able to fiddle with the height and width though, if there was another font that was preferred.
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PostPosted: Wed 12 Sep 2012, 06:38    Post subject:  
That does it, thanks. Still though if any one knows how to do without the frame buffer. I would be interested to know. I would use it as a fall-back.

Now were is the nice LED font.... Very Happy
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