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@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ create your own under, say, `$HOME/.fonts`. The following example uses `$HOME/.fonts` as the font directory and adds it to the font path. To make the font path addition permanent, you should add the `xset` lines to your `$HOME/.xinitrc` or equivalent X11 -startup file. +startup file (common candidates are `.xsession` and `.xprofile`). ``` mkdir -p $HOME/.fonts @@ -144,6 +144,31 @@ You may also drop the font files into directory `/usr/share/vt/fonts` and add `allscreens_flags="-f gallant"` to your `/etc/rc.conf`. This way all console terminals use the font after boot. +### Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD Console + +The Linux console uses +[PSF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Screen_Font) fonts. As of 2025 +this format can only contain 256 or 512 glyphs. + +The NetBSD console is also restricted to 512 glyphs. It does not handle +double width or combining characters. + +OpenBSD inherited the `wscons` from NetBSD, so similar restrictions apply. + +The glyphs in this gallant project would have to be severely reduced in +number to fit. If someone wants to contribute a stripped down font in +the appropriate format, I'm willing to add it to this project. + +## Who are you? + +I'm an ex-Sun Microsystems software engineer who had a stint in the +company shortly before Oracle took over (2008/2009). I was nowhere near +the OpenBoot PROM files which contained the gallant font. My first +contact with SUN hardware was in the late 80's and early 90's at +university with the 3/60 and the SPARCstations. It was then and there +that the gallant font and the Trinitron CRT raster were burnt in my +retina. + ## History The oldest reference to the Gallant font I could find was in a Copyright |