[kmscon-devel] Setting Font Name & Size

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:41 AM, John Magolske <listmail at b79.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> [140512 23:19]:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:30 AM, John Magolske <listmail at b79.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >     # kmscon --font-name sgiscreen-9x20
>> >     # kmscon --font-name sgiscreen-9x20 --font-size 20 --font-dpi 72
>> >
>> > ...does not load. I'm wondering what directory to drop this bdf file
>> > in and what commands to run to have it recognized & loaded by kmscon.
>>
>> It highly depends on the font-backend you use.
>
> To load any font other than the included unifont and 8x16 fonts, is
> there a font-backend option other than pango?

No, there's no other option. There used to be a freetype2+fontconfig
backend, but it was basically the same as pango so I removed it.

All font renderers on linux use font-config, as far as I know. It's a
bit under-documented and weird, but it works. So usually, if one looks
around enough, you find some HOWTOs that describe what you want to do.
Just like in your case now.

Thanks
David