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spetrillo

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Hello all,

As I get older my eyes are getting worse. Is there a way to clean up the console text and make the text sharper and maybe make the text larger? I do not see any way in VNC.

Thanks,
Steve
 
Is there a way to clean up the console text and make the text sharper and maybe make the text larger? I do not see any way in VNC.
Can't you use SSH to connect to the VM? Or add a serial terminal to the VM and SSH into Proxmox and use qm terminal? Then the font, size and rendering can be determined entirely by your SSH client of choice.
 
When you use the Console in your PVE Tab in Browser, the Console Scale. With the Popup Console Window, the Console are static:
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Resizing the popout "Shell" window increases the font size on my Mac with Chrome.

Alternatively, you could browse with a 4K TV and sit fairly close (this is what I do)
 
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Can't you use SSH to connect to the VM? Or add a serial terminal to the VM and SSH into Proxmox and use qm terminal? Then the font, size and rendering can be determined entirely by your SSH client of choice.
I can but there are times when I need to use the Proxmox GUI and trying to see that crap font is painful.
 
You can also try turning off local scaling, which normally will blur the font due to non-fractional scaling. This can either be done per-VM/-session by clicking on the gearwheel icon in noVNC settings pane on the left and selecting "Off" for "Local Scaling". That should at least make the font crisp again.

Increasing the font/console size can only be from within the VM, as that display entirely in control of the VM and nothing Proxmox VE can do here.
 
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