worked on my pure tty setup on my laptop some more, managed to get a custom list of unicode characters in the console font, so now I have a linux tty with some nerdfont support. I set up some fancy shell prompts via starship.rs too. the tty can really look good if you put a little work into it :3
2025-02-10 · 1 year ago · 👍 stack, wasolili, byte, ghost, ps, clseibold, decant-
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🦋 CarloMonte · 2025-02-10 at 06:43:
you can tweak the color palette for even better results.
🚀 mbays · 2025-02-10 at 10:14:
How did you add new characters? By making your own psf? Do I remember correctly that there's a pretty strict limit on the number of characters in the font?
screen gang, tmux gang or zellij gang? :)
❤️ thanos [OP] · 2025-02-10 at 17:29:
I'm using tmux, and Yes, I made my own psf. I'm using the tool bdf2psf to accomplish that, and the bitmap font I've chosen to use is Cozette. the character limit is 512, so you can't just throw in everything, and the tty only supports regular-width characters. regardless, you can still fit a lot in if you just pick out the sections of the font you absolutely need.
I'm building up a console/tty only setup too. But only for the two days #ConsoleChallenge initiated by adele. It starts in March and the goal is to use the console/tty exclusively for two consecutive days. It's not difficult, if you already use the terminal extensively in tiling windowmanager.
But I don't spend too much time on the look of it, it must only be as functional as possible. I stayed with the "default8x16" font, bc it's the only one which supports german umlauts (Terminus would have been nice though). And I use tmux extensively for the first time and been delighted since! There was no real use case for tmux in a tiling window mangager, but it's a real cool thing with lots of possibilities.
— ConsoleChallenge Fedi Thread (www)
Only my beloved Qutebrowser I'll deeply miss. But it will be a fun short term challenge anyway!
🚀 mbays · 2025-02-11 at 14:58:
@thanos Sounds interesting, but it looks like a lot of research is necessary to prepare the input files for bdf2psf... I don't suppose you'd like to share what you came up with?
❤️ thanos [OP] · 2025-02-12 at 00:16:
@mbays I put together a writeup and included my working files, you can find it here.
— writeup on using the command, my working files attached.
🚀 mbays · 2025-02-15 at 12:11:
thanks! I quite like the font and some of the glyph choices, but I think I'll stick with Solarize for now.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2025-03-12 at 01:41:
@thanos - this sounds interesting. Something I thought of doing myself. Do you have screenshots of how it looks?
@daruma I've heared of fbterm just one day after my challenge :(. It has nerd fonts for Terminus and also german umlauts. Cool thing.
@daruma During the #ConsoleChallenge (in which I was the only participant (yet)) I didn't use fbterm but I could watch youtube videos on the console with MPV :) That was great! I guess this also works on fbterm, but idk.