How to change temporarily font size in text console in openSUSE?

Question

I found several answers already but all of them are focused on changing size for good, i.e. at Lilo/Grub level. I don't want this though.

So, key issues:

1. changing size on-fly, I would like to increase size, and 5 minutes later, decrease it back

2. it is question about text console, not terminal running in X11

openSUSE 11.4 if this matters. Thank you in advance.

I am only interested in size of the font, not in typeface of it.

Solution

You can use

setfont /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/$font

to change the font in the console, and then to revert back, just

setfont

Once you determine where Suse keeps these fonts, with

locate consolefonts

pick a larger one to set and away you go...

There is more detail here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts

Comments

[greenoldman]

Thank you very much, great reading! openSUSE has the same location for fonts, so there was no problem.

[daisy]

That works for console? I doubt it, but for a terminal emulator it would work.