This tutorial is for tty only! This how to did not work in Konsole, I got some funny looking error message 😮 Which I didn’t care too much about, since I am tty junkie and terminal emulators have unlike tty a menu in which can you change the font. This also explains why the usual screenshots are missing, I had to take pictures. And yes they suck, I can’t take pictures, I know 🙄

I entered tty3 by hitting

Ctrl+Alt+F3

(read more about getting in and out of tty here).

Where I was presented with this screen:

I logged with my username and password, the regular ones, no need to login as root.

Then I typed:

cd /lib/kbd/consolefonts

This moves to directory where all the fonts are stored, to see which fonts there are, type:

ls

These are the fonts you can choose from:

To see what a font (for example sun12X22.psfu.gz) looks like type:

setfont sun12x22.psfu.gz

Yes you can use TAB completion in tty too!

Here you can see what earlier mentioned font looks like:

Keep in mind this is a temporary solution, for a permanent solution the .bashrc file needs to modified 💡

Remember you can always do the cliccie for a larger piccie 😛 Yes, people my laptop is so gross, so am I 😎 Yes I have a piece of tape on my camera, the world doesn’t need so me naked  Yes there is a can of beer there (Hertog Jan) deal with it.

Yes, people this lady is becoming a tty junkie I prefer it over Konsole and now I am so glad I went through the pain () of learning basics of Vim. There is no need for me to leave tty now, besides from doing obvious Desktop Environment thingies.

If you want to move a page up:

Shift + Page Up

I would like to point out the amount you of pages you can go up is limited In my case I can go up like 8 pages, I’ve heard you can edit this by editing your .bashrc file. When I discover how to do that, I’ll write a how-to

If you want to move a page down:

Shift + Page Down

Let’s say you have moved 5 pages up, but you don’t want to press Shift + Page Down four times to go back to the last page. If you press:

Shift + End

or

Shift + Home

you’ll get back to the last page, from what ever page you currently are.

You could also hit:

Ctrl+l

this clears the screen.

I.had.to.Google.like.MAD to find this solution

All you have to do is press:

Alt+F1

You enter tty from the Desktop Envrionment by pressing  Ctrl+Alt+F2 up till Ctrl+Alt+F6 .

If  you want to switch between several tty’s, like  if you are for example in tty3 and want to go to tty2 all you have to do is hit Alt+F2 and you are in tty2. Nice huh?

Btw, let’s not use the comment section of this post to debate my Google skills okay