Blog: 2026-01-07

Setting up another user account on raspberry pi os. First apt update didn't work cause the network wouldn't connect to certain domains that apt update wanted. I created a new user:

sudo adduser razzi
sudo adduser razzi sudo

Then I logged in with that user, set up passwordless sudo, installed fish, changed my default shell, and logged out and logged back in for fish to be the shell the terminal would start with.

I made the terminal font bigger but the default dark blue is just so dark ... gonna look into installing the default debian or ubuntu terminal app since lxterminal seems more limited. Worse defaults for colors and fonts (default font size was only 10px!)

I'm pausing on trying to update the terminal app. Running `rpi-update` and it linked me to this forum post for updating kernel 6.6 to 6.12: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=379745

I thought I could get a graphical desktop with `lightdm` but something strange happened and now I'm looking at a debian desktop with no raspberry pi theming any more ... ?

Also learned about the import command in the process: https://askubuntu.com/questions/194427/what-is-the-terminal-command-to-take-a-screenshot

control alt f7 - get to graphical desktop again. f1 - f6 get tty 1 - 6