[ale] Idiots shutting out those with visual problems: was Weird window-manager shenanigans on debian 12...

[Jim Kinney]

My laptop has a 4k capable screen so the standard boot up terminal font is
microscopic. Lucky me I have a jewelers loupe. It seems the old school
pixel counts are insufficient on a screen that's several  multiples of
640x480 :-)

I fixed it at some point and broke it again with some later tweak attempt.
There's an initial grub screen that's totally unreadable and that's what I
messed up. But the terminal fonts afterwards are readable. In my copious
spare time I'll fix the grub fonts again.

-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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On Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 12:45 PM William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:28:24 -0400
>> William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>> > This is the way I like my console.  So I can pull up a howto or
>> > something, and do my work directly from the instructions... lol...
>> >
>> > https://bloodlands.shadows.ngrok.dev/filez/terminal.png
>>
>> The preceding URL didn't resolve, giving a "ERR_NGROK_3200", whatever
>> that means. I know of one distro, whose filthy name I won't mention,
>> who not only used 6 point fonts on X11, but arranged their framebuffer
>> to to use the same tiny fonts.
>>
>>
> It works for me through the tor network.  Are you using google
> nameservers?  They sometimes mess with ngrok addresses.   You tube does
> too.  You have to use a tinurl to get them to work off YouTube.
>
> Sounds like you have issues with the distro that shall not be named.  ;-)
>  I don't even hate gnome that much!  lol...
>
> I always have to mess with the default resolution & fonts in grub.   Not
> only for my eyes (the fonts) but I use an hdmi tv- an older one, for my
> monitor, and distros tend to make the console too big to fit on the screen
> for some reason.  But  I struggle through it and set it manually and
> everything's good.
>
>
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