I’m a macbro who’s been using the terminal for eight years. I downloaded an Archlinux VM for UTM (macOS Tahoe) and I like it, I just wish the text was bigger. I know you don’t get Arch because of its snazzy UI, you do it so you can do…Idk, cool 1337 h4x0r shit? I seriously don’t know, you guys, I’ve only been an Arch user for like three days.
More likely than not you’re confusing modifier keys.
On the Mac, the zoom is [Command] + [+].
In Linux it’s [Control] + [+]
This is pretty much true across the board. It’s sometimes non-obvious because wrappers like UTM try to “help”.
The alternative is to ssh into the VM and continue to use the MacOS shortcuts you’re used to.
Source: I’ve been using Linux on MacOS guests for a very long time.
i’m just gonna go with kali. so yeah that’s the final update, i’m going with kali because it has a GUI (I like the GUI+terminal combo) and i wanna do shit with cybersec.
i think ur talking about the Linux console. don’t bother customizing that. install kde or whatever gui u use. then open the terminal (e. g. konsole or gnome-terminal). ur zoom shortcuts should work out of the box now.
too bad u switched already. u were one command away from having the gui
Good shitpost, please report the issue you’re facing with some details.
ok well i installed arch just fine, no issues with getting everything up and running. i just noticed that the “make text bigger” shortcut that works for my mac terminal didn’t work with arch, so i did some googling and still couldn’t find anything
right now i think i’m just gonna go with fedora, unless you or someone else can convince me otherwise. i like the UI better and, ngl, i’m not like a whiz with software so i don’t know how to customize like every little thing. so i think fedora is a better fit for me because it looks a LOT nicer and it comes with some shit preinstalled
go with fedora
i feel you’ll be happier with it
i just noticed that the “make text bigger” shortcut that works for my mac terminal didn’t work with arch
That’s because in MacOS it’s a terminal emulator, a GUI application with a CLI inside.
In Arch, if you didn’t install a desktop environment, the terminal is the raw TTY, not an emulator, so it does not have reszing/zoom options.
But as @anon5621@lemmy.ml mentioned, you can set the font of the TTY to a bigger font using the
setfontcommand.checking out setfont right now. i’m in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts and the fonts are all there, but when i try setfont it says it doesn’t work for this particulal kernel. tried a few fonts so far
Maybe the wiki has some useful information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console#Fonts
i did some research and ran some greps and i think i found the problem. i’m using a serial terminal, not a framebuffer console, in other words there’s no custom font support at all. hmmmm. kind weird. well i just freed up a shit ton of space on my laptop so i’ll just download another arch and see if that one doesn’t suck
i’m just going with kali for now, but thanks! :)
Peak shitposting
thanks! it’s actually based on a true story. when i got into kali and hacker shit three years ago (i was recovering from a traumatic brain injury and was quite literally insane) i couldn’t figure out how to make the text on arch bigger so i went to linuxquestions.org
You must have downloaded some pre-packaged install because Arch by default doesn’t come with a GUI. Normally you have to install everything yourself: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
mine doesn’t have a GUI. shit looks like what my dad coded on when he was in grad school.
I guess u are talking about tty if so then
setfont ter-132bOther fonts located here so u can choose and use name of to apply with setfont
ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/i checked. turns out my arch doesn’t have any font support so i just deleted the whole thing. gonna try fedora or debian
Up to u,but if u wanna ready to arch based disto go with cachyos it’s almost vanilla arch with performance tweaks
