Set Console Font

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1. Hello Sir, I am from India 🇮🇳 and am new to cyber-security world i have been facing these issue since i have installed the OS. Now am using Kali Linux in VMware. Can you please help me with which font should i choose.

   Thank you 😊

2. BLESS YOU CHRIS!!!! In Debian I was manually editing /etc/default/console-setup and the changes were not being registered on reboot. sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup – YES!!!

   By the way do you have any tips on setting up the mouse, copy/paste between vi and command line, and copying commands from a VirtualBox host to Linux VirtualBox default terminal. I have a VirtualBox shared drive which is accessible from the default command prompt.

   Also I just discovered on Linux desktops using X any app running in X, notepad/calc/editor/browser/…, can capture every typed character – every app has the authority to operate as a key logger. I've also heard wayland can get around this. A video highlighting this feature with a workaround like a Debian install of the Labwc would be most excellent.

3. I use sudo zypper install terminus-fonts-console but the package is not found

4. I install openSuse Leap Server with GUI, and this terminus-font-console is not found

5. YES!! THANK you!! Thank you, thank you, THANK you!! These old eyes thank you very much! I was going to offer you my first born but she said no so, sorry!

6. You can install new fonts other than the default ones, I wanted to install nerd fonts but I couldn't, how can I do this?

7. That was very helpful. Thanks a lot Chris

8. Can you tell us how to change the font colors in alacritty?

9. For Arch I install the powerline-fonts-git package and set the font to ter-powerline-v16n. You get more of the special glyphs needed for prompts and vim status lines etc.

10. Love your tutorials Chris! Have a question (me being an Ubuntu addict) I started like many on Ubuntu, I'm wondering how to live without PPAs, most software I install support Ubuntu first and almost always have some form is installable for this distro. I like being up todate and not having to manually update packages that don't live inside Apt list, (and snaps in my experience have been dreadfully slow) so I avoid them like the plague… Hope they improve but not for me (and most sane people who value their time I would think) so what should I use to manage my packages if I were to jump to say a Debian (maybe Fedora) distro with no access to PPA's (sorry one last note, don't want the hassel of compiling everything)

11. Thanks, Chris. I'm staring sixty in in the face, so this is very useful.

12. Thanks. Console fonts by default are insanely small.

13. I thought I remember using a Terminal program that had adjustable-size fonts; can't recall which one it was though just now.

14. Sir I have a problem it is looks like your pc did not started correctly when i restart IT is of no use but wnen I try to reset it it shows the following error windows needs space to install free up some space and try again but I don't know how to clear data from disk C from recovery screen so can you please tell me what should I do can I install windows 10 on another drive please help sir

15. How exactly is that more difficult on Arch?

16. My console fonts are on /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts

17. Hi Chris,
    Thanks so much for this video. I'm actually logged into my Ubuntu web server (a lot), so I'm wondering if you can make more server-related videos? Bash scripting? Maybe htop/ memory management?

18. Thanks Chris for the video. I'm draggin' my knuckles but learning as I go

19. Not working for me

20. Here comes another 2hours to spend in my terminal trying customize.

    Good one.

21. Thanks. These eyes of mine are up there in age so I need all the help I can get

22. I was having this specific "console font" problem yesterday. Are you reading my mind?? im scared.

23. Thanks, that was a neat tip (and with dpkg so easy).

24. Wonderful video, as always!

25. Thank you, Chris. I use nerd fonts for Powerline.

26. Clear and concise, great video idea!

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