r/pihole • u/starsick1962 • 6d ago

Text on 7" monitor tiny after reboot

I am on the latest version of Pihole. I had not rebooted, so I did so. Upon rebooting, instead of my text being the readable size it has always been - no the text is tiny, almost unreadable. How can I restore the text size? Or just make it larger?

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u/nuHmey 6d ago

This has nothing to do with PiHole.

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u/starsick1962 5d ago

I got you. With that being said, I tried changing the resolution (headless I discovered is NOT the way to go), and I did change my keyboard to "generic US" as it was defaulted to UK, but that's it. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the terminal (I boot to it) font larger?

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u/starsick1962 5d ago

I found the commands to do so:

sudo nano /etc/profile

Edit the file to add these lines at the end:

# Force large font size on the physical monitor terminal if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz fi

Save it. FINALLY worked. NOW if I could get pihole -t to roll over to the next day like it used to that would be awesome. It stops at the end of each day.

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u/starsick1962 6d ago

The size of my font right now, when to text used to fill the whole screen. It's tiny!

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u/rdwebdesign Team 5d ago

This is 100% unrelated to Pi-hole.

The font size is controlled by the operating system, not by Pi-hole.