Hi Due to my vision problems, I often change the font size on the tty, which I do as follows: setfont ter-122b ; (uso terminus-font) To set it permanently in Arch, I used to put it in /etc/vconsol.conf. FONT=ter-122b From what I’ve seen in Endeavour, there is a parameter that overrides it, but …

Just to clarify, are you talking about TTY (Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6), or a terminal emulator, like Konsole (KDE) or Gnome Terminal, etc? If it’s the former, I actually don’t know. But the latter have configuration options for adjusting font and font-size.

I was referring to TTYs; I have no problems with emulators.

@QuijoteLibre Have a look at archlinux-larger-font-console cat /etc/vconsole.conf FONT=ter-p32b FONT_MAP=8859-2 KEYMAP=hu Looks more readable.

Here’s what I have: File: /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=es FONT=ter-p28b From what I can see in the startup logs, as displayed on the screen, it seems to work fine at first, but at some point that I can’t detect, it loses it. From what I’ve read, it seems that this value is overwritten by some kernel…

@QuijoteLibre , I must admit that I tested with a zen kernel in garuda. Now I’ve reinstalled EnOS Plasma and it seems that after any change of /etc/vconsole.conf FONT=ter-p32b.psf.gz FONT_MAP=8859-2 KEYMAP=hu a new initramfs needs to be generated by command sudo dracut -H --force the more kn…

I’ve just given up on this. My conclusions: From what I can see at startup, it seems to boot fine (until it asks me for the LUKS key, the fonts appear enlarged). At some point later (it seems to be when KMS starts up), the font returns to normal resolution. I don’t understand why, if it always wo…

Make some tests in a test system. Garuda Mokka on btrfs provides snapshots out of the box. EnOS as well if you are on btrfs. LUKS should also work, I tested it years ago.

Hi. [image] QuijoteLibre: At some point later (it seems to be when KMS starts up), the font returns to normal resolution. Maybe this advice from Archwiki is relevant: If the fonts appear to not change on boot, or change only temporarily, it is most likely that they got reset when graphics …

[image] kainonergon: NVIDIA users should see NVIDIA#Early loading to load their graphics driver before /etc/vconsole.conf is applied. Thanks, lI’ll take a look, but I don’t use NVIDIA.

Thank you for the guidance. I have taken a further step, reading what you have quoted to me on this page . Execute systemctl restart systemd-vconsole-setup.service in order to apply any manual changes made to /etc/vconsole.conf. I am sure that the systemd-vconsole-setup service is running, and …

How change tty fonts

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kainonergon September 28, 2025, 1:28pm 14

I think the answer can be found here: