I know how to edit the console font on Centos 6.5 by editing the SYSCONF entry in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, but I suspect this has changed in Fedora 20.

I have a laptop with a HiDPI high resolution screen (3200 x 1800 pixels) that is handled surprisingly well by Gnome 3.10 but I often work in a TTY terminal (alt ctrl F2-F6) and the font there is tiny.

How do adjust the font in the TTY terminal under Fedora 20?

Thanks.

Let me Google this for you:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/que...-console-font/

I already saw that posting. However when I tried "sudo setfont lat2-sun32.psfu.gz" it had no visible effect and I was leery of changing my grub settings specially since my grasp of Grub2 is far less than my knowlege of Grub Legacy or LILO.

I also had a fun night trying to dual boot Fedora 20 and Windows 8.1 within a secure boot setup before giving up in disgust and just nuking the Windows install and reverting to Legacy BIOS. Interestingly I had succeeded in the past to setup a dual boot Ubuntu Install dual booting within secure boot setup, however GRUB now always failed to install even when I tried to reinstall Ubuntu. I have just had a fun 16 hours doing multiple installations while trying to dual boot Fedora with Windows, so I am being extra cautious now that I have a working Fedora only install.

Maybe this font is not installed ? see which fonts you have in /lib/kbd/consolefont.

Check also this page: http://daddy-linux.blogspot.fr/2012/...in-fedora.html

It is installed. I can see it in my ls listing of /lib/kbd/consolfonts.

Do you type the command "sudo setfont lat2-sun32.psfu.gz" in the same tty where you want to display text?
What happens if you type "sudo su" followed by "setfont lat2-sun32.psfu.gz"?
Does the command work for other fonts?

sudo is not set up by default
on fedora/rhel/cent you have to set it up if you want to use it

normally you would use
" su " or " su - "

I think you nailed it. I was typing it in the graphical console and checking the result in the tty terminal.

setfont does work within the same tty terminal. Now I have to figure out how to make the change permanent. Changing the kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub does not make a permanent change, and I did update grub with:

I have to look up the solution in the Debian forum since I remember seeing the solution there in the past.

I haven't found a proper permanent solution till now but as a temporary measure I added a

line to my .bash_profile file, this way I have a readable terminal once I log into a tty terminal.

My guess (only a guess, as fortunately I'm not a Fedora user :-) is that you suffer from a change in Fedora 20, due to systemd introduction, in the way console settings are handled, so now you have to make your changes in /etc/vconsolefont instead of modifying the SYSCONF variable in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. See this page to know more.

PS It seems systemd was first at least partly introduced in Fedora18, so I'm not actually sure when this change was made.

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