Ever had the need to change the console font in fedora? I did because using the default font greek characters were completely unreadable. So, here is how to do it.
The fonts that can be used by the console are kept in the /lib/kbd/consolefonts/ directory.
You can define the desired font in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file by modifying the SYSCONF entry. I used the iso07u-16.psfu.gz font that supports greek unicode characters, so my SYSFONT variable contains this:
SYSFONT="iso07u-16"
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It’s not working on Fedora 19.
Now font and keymap should be read from /etc/vconsole.conf and set by systemd.
Morover it should be overridden by grub variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 vconsole.keymap=pl2″ if it is set in /etc/default/grub config file. But atually it is NOT set nor overridden :(
Only way to change it I found working are “setfont latarcyrheb-sun16” for FONT and “loadkeys pl2” for KEYMAP commands.
Does anybody know proper way to set it?