On 12/20/18 5:39 PM, home user via users wrote:
(Rick said)
The font(s) used by grub2 shouldbe located in /boot/grub2/fonts ... FONT_FILES in the man page just represents where the source font file is located. For example, to convert the FreeSans.ttf font (which is located in /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free) into a 24-point font grub2 can grok called "newfont.pf2":
grub2-mkfont -o /tmp/newfont.pf2 --size=24 \ /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.ttf
Then move/copy the file created to /boot/grub2/fonts:
cp /tmp/newfont.pf2 /boot/grub2/fonts
And put the name of the file into the GRUB_FONT option: GRUB_FONT=newfont.pf2
That oughta do it.
Yep. That did it.
Should anyone else choose to try Rick's suggestions, I suggest a minor change: Name the grub font file the same as the source font file, but with the size appended:
- grub2-mkfont -o /tmp/FreeSans24.pf2 --size=24
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.ttf
cp /tmp/FreeSans24.pf2 /boot/grub2/fonts
put the name of the file into the GRUB_FONT option:
GRUB_FONT=FreeSans24.pf2
- do the grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg
This way, the name of the font file documents what font and size is being used.
Also, I learned the hard way: the size (here, 24) has a different meaning (units) than the font size in LibreOffice. I actually tried 16 first. That's nice and big in LibreOffice, but it was tiny in the grub menu.
Thank-you, Rick.
You're quite welcome.
If, after a few days, the grub menu still looks good, I'll promote this thread from CLOSED to SOLVED.
Yeah, good idea!
Note that "sizes" in most word processors or printing-related things are given in points (12 points to the inch, so 24 points is 2 inches or about 5 cm high). For display-oriented things such as grub or X or Wayland, sizes generally are in pixels (which vary depending on the resolution of the monitor), so 24 is only 24 _pixels_ high. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I don't get mad and I don't get even. I get ahead! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------