How to change the font in the terminal of server?

Question

I'm running a 10.04 server at home. Is it possible to install the new Ubuntu font used in the 10.10 Desktop versions on my server and configure it so the console uses it when I hook up a monitor to it while I'm working on it (for when SSH isn't working)?

Thanks for your help!!

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 05 '12 at 07:42

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Try the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

edited Mar 05 '12 at 07:42

jokerdino

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answered Mar 05 '12 at 02:51

user49242

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '10 at 10:54

The Ubuntu font has no monospaced version, so it's not suited for use in a terminal or console that has fixed width character cells.

In addition, console fonts are special bitmap fonts, not TrueType/OpenType fonts (but OTOH it shouldn't be too difficult to create a console font from a monospaced TrueType font).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 01 '19 at 07:02

I like this answer:

setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/UbuntuMono-R-8x16.psf

this is an example; you can see a list of available fonts like this:

ls /usr/share/consolefonts

and should you for some reason not have them, you can install them like this:

sudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console

note that you may need to put the setfont command in your .profile or .bashrc as it may need to be run upon every login

How to change the font in the terminal of server?

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