Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

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Hi, this is my first post. I wasn’t sure which category I ashould put this under, so here it is since I’m using XFCE.

I was trying to change the font on my system. I downloaded a .ttf I liked, I put it in /usr/share/fonts/TTF using root privileges. I installed it with: $fc-cache -f -v
and the installation succeeded.

I wanted to setfont or even to just to check the current font with showconsolefont, but each time I get the following message:
“Couldn’t get a file descriptor referring to the console”.

Whichever additional information you need in order to name the problem, feel free to give me instructions on what I need to do.

Thank you.

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Was there no interesting font to install from the repositories?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts#Installation

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That’s not a problem. I haven’t said what I’ve installed. Do you know how to fix the given error? :slight_smile:

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First search result:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28353244/error-in-linux-console-couldnt-get-a-file-descriptor-referring-to-the-console#28354504

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I have seen that answer but it didn’t work for me. I’ve tried to overwrite from /etc/skel to home directory to make sure I didn’t have anything unnecessary.

The problem was that I have tried to change the font of a terminal emulator, but was actually changing the tty, console, font. That was the problem.