showconsolefont(8)

showconsolefont8

Show the current ega/vga console screen font

Usage

showconsolefont [options]

Overview

The showconsolefont command outputs the current console font to stdout. On Linux 2.6.1 and later, the option -C allows one to indicate the console involved. Its argument is a pathname.

Options

-i, --info

don't print out the font table, just show: ROWSxCOLSxCOUNT and exit.

-C, --console=DEV

the console device to be used.

-v, --verbose

be more verbose.

-V, --version

print version number.

-h, --help

print this usage message.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1–9
  2. 10
  3. 11–12
  4. 13–Arch

--console since Debian 13 (Trixie); --help since Debian 13 (Trixie); --info since Debian 13 (Trixie); --verbose since Debian 13 (Trixie); --version since Debian 13 (Trixie); -C since Debian 13 (Trixie); -V since Debian 13 (Trixie); -h since Debian 13 (Trixie); -i since Debian 13 (Trixie); -v since Debian 13 (Trixie).

From kbd 2.10.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.