Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 5 Jan 2001 20:36:33 +0000 From iheino@cc.hut.fi Fri Jan 05 14:36:33 2001 Return-path: Received: from smtp-2.hut.fi [130.233.228.92] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14EdbE-0002d1-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:36:33 -0600 Received: from bx3.bx.fi (i@cc-dialin1-27.hut.fi [130.233.251.27]) by smtp-2.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA64609; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:36:30 +0200 (EET) Received: from iheino by bx3.bx.fi with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14EdbB-0005mx-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:36:29 +0200 From: Tuomas Heino Subject: console-tools: console-chars -d is "useless" as is... compared to what setfont used to do To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.2.2 Message-Id: Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:36:29 +0200 Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3-14 Severity: wishlist ... as it tries to use several files that could be something else than fonts, like default.gz Looking for fonts in the current directory is ok when the filename is actually specified on the command line by the user; looking for >20 files first in the current directory and then in a bunch of others when the user does "consolechars -d" (or a program does that on users' behalf - cmatrix does that) is kinda bad. Instead it should be kludged to use the default font in /etc/console-tools/config (then that config file could have a fixed path to prevent things from getting "mixed up";) -- System Information Debian Release: woody Kernel Version: Linux bx3 2.4.0-prerelease #286 Mon Jan 1 22:56:26 EET 2001 i686 unknown Versions of the packages console-tools depends on: ii console-data 1999.08.29-12.1 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback tables for console-tools ii console-tools-libs 0.2.3-14 Shared libraries for Linux console and font manipulation. ii libc6 2.2-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data ii sysvinit 2.78-4 System-V like init. --- Begin /etc/console-tools/config (modified conffile) SCREEN_FONT=lat1u-16 --- End /etc/console-tools/config