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

[William Wylde]

You'd think they'd come up with a way to detect and compensate for this
kind of thing.   I don't even worry about the initial grub screen, I know
what it says without having to be able to read it... :-D



On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:28:24 -0400
>>> William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > 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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always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.”  ― Mark Twain
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