DEBIAN CONSOLE FONTS
I have found another way to change the Default Linux console font to something that is more readable, from the default which is really small text. The instructions are at [1]. This works on my current Debian [2] 11.0 set up, but as usual Your mileage may vary. If you ask on a forum, social media or IRC about this, please quote the website below [1] and not this blog post.
The contents of my /etc/default/console-setup are now as follows:-
1 # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON
2
3 # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.
4
5 ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
6 CHARMAP="UTF-8"
7 CODESET="guess"
8 FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
9 FONTSIZE="16x32"
10 SCREEN_WIDTH="80"
11
12 VIDEOMODE=
13
14 # The following is an example how to use a braille font
15 # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
16
Hopefully this is useful.
For the record my settings are:-
ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
FONTSIZE="16x32"
SCREEN_WIDTH="80"
VIDEOMODE=
REFERENCES
- How to change your linux console fonts
2 Debian
3 Free Software Foundation
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PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND SPACE: TEACHING SECONDARY SCIENCE
Just completed the above course with Future Learn. Hoping this will help me as a Teaching Assistant or Lab technician in a school.
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#Physics,#Astronomy,#Space,#Secondary,#Science,#Learning,
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Materials Science Development 2/8/2021
Manganese could make luminescent materials and the conversion of sunlight more sustainable
Sounds like an interesting development. You can read more on Science Daily [2]. I think the significant part of this discovery is that Manganese [2] is cheaper and more readily available. Please feel free, to open a thread on Discourse [3] in order to discuss further.
Links
1 Main Article
2 Royal Society of Chemistry – Manganese
3 Discourse
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#Science,#ScienceDaily,#Materials,#Managnese,#Liminescent,#Sunlight,#Chemistry
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LibreOffice 7 – File open with content problem
I was recently sent some files by my local library in relation to Code Club. Essentially some draft flyers. Upon opening, I seem to be getting the content, plus remnants of some previous file content.
Both are docx files. Hopefully these can be downloaded, however I do acknowledge gitlab is not the best place for these types of files generally as it is meant to be for code. I am not sure how else to easily share files.
These seem to appear as
I am not too sure what is causing this. I am using Debian 11 and LibreOffice 7.
I know that MS office can keep previous versions of a file, so not sure if this issue has something to do with that.
This is what it should look like
Happy to try and diagnose further with some help.
This has now been reported as a bug here
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Freedom ladder – From the Free Software Foundation 5/8/2021
Introduction
The “freedom ladder” is a new method the FSF campaigns team has developed to help users get their first start in software freedom.
One problem with most guides introducing newcomers to GNU/Linux is that they stop them too soon on their “journey to freedom,” and end up suggesting that a partially nonfree setup is a desirable outcome. By contrast, our guides focus is to encourage users to not rest content with nonfree software, while at the same time recognizing that they have other pressures and obligations. We want to help them stay both motivated and determined in their gradual process to eliminate nonfree software from their lives.
Previous meetings have been excellent with lots to chat and think about.
Next meeting is Thursday 5th August 2021. 16:00 to 17:00 Eastern Time on IRC (chat) and will be looking at *Learning how to find help / Trying a free operating system *.
This is going to be 21:00 UK time I think.
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The Importance of Small Objects: Exocomets
This is the August public lecture from the Space Telescope Science Institute
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Debconf 2021 – Planning meeting : August 9th
The next planning meeting for this years Debian Conference will take place on Monday 9th August @ 18:00 UTC (19:00 United Kingdom time UTC+1) on IRC.
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1 Debconf 2021 Website
1a Contact info
2 Mailing list sign up
3 OFTC IRC
4 Poster (work in progress)
5 Salsa Gitlab
TAGS
#Debian,#Conference,#Developer,#Planning,#Meeting
CONTACT
The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.
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Debian 11 power manager
I am running Debian 11 with XFCE. It appears, that despite the power manager being set to blank the display after 20 minutes, this for me happens on my system after 1 minute ( I timed it).
This is not critical for me, just seems like unexpected behaviour. I am making this post to see if anyone else is having the same or similar issues.
I am using Debian 11 and the XFCE Desktop environment.
name -a
Linux Desktop 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-3 (2021-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other system information (gained via hexchat)
Client: HexChat 2.14.3 • OS: Debian 11.0 • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz (1.60GHz) • Memory: Physical: 3.7 GiB Total (2.3 GiB Free) Swap: 953.8 MiB Total (953.8 MiB Free) • Storage: 263.9 GB / 478.4 GB (214.5 GB Free) • VGA: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller @ Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller • Uptime: 32m 37s
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Deban Conference meeting 2/8/2021
The next Debian conference meeting is Monday 2/8/2021. The agenda is below.
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Torbay Trojans – 1/8/2021
Torbay Trojans are training today from 10 am to 13:00. Foxhole community centre, Bellfield Road, Paignton.
A chance for the team to regroup and refocus before their next game.
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#Football,#Trojans,#Training
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