I tried this rpm on 15.2; none of the pcf fonts can be loaded.

$ fc-list|grep -i suse12
/usr/share/fonts/misc/suse12x22.pcf.gz: suse12x22.pcf:style=Regular
$ xterm -fa 'suse12x22.pcf'
(uses a font that definitely isn't 12x22)

Let me pitch the idea that you can just use MxPlus IBM VGA 9x16 from int10h-oldschoolpc-fonts.rpm. psf2bdf.pl could also be replaced by /usr/bin/vfontas -loadpsf xxx.psf -savebdf xxx.bdf (hxtools.rpm)

Fabian Vogt (Vogtinator) - over 3 years ago

Did you reload fonts, as mentioned in the documentation? This is used mostly on Leap 15.2 workers.

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Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) - over 3 years ago

The thing with documentation is that, from a end-user perspective, there isn't any:

• The RPM package has no files in /usr/share/doc.
• The %description does not mention any special prerequisites.
• https://github.com/os-autoinst/xterm_console/blob/master/README.md is just the description.

$ xterm-console --help
xterm: bad command line option "--help"
$ man xterm-console
No manual entry for xterm-console

Only with developer mode on, did I find it..

xterm also has a fixed cursor 1 pixel high; the IBM VGA console uses 2 pixels. Furthermore, the blink rate on VGA depends on the vertical refresh rate. Rumour has it that the ontime and offtime is 8 ticks each, so to mimic a 720x400@85Hz setup in mode 0, the ontime and offtime would have to be 94 ms; for a 800x600@60Hz VESA mode, it would be 133 ms. @mkittler

Fabian Vogt (Vogtinator) - over 3 years ago

This is already being used successfully by openQA for several years, the functionality is proven.