Hi maintainers,
I looked hard at a nicer way to provide a flag to start kbd pointing to a
directory or file. There is a flag to point to a file for a font which
could be nice. However setfont also prioritizes the current directory over
the kbd directory. The following patch attempts to chdir to a directory
where more console fonts may be installed.
- John
From 15aa08d212ecea31adcd86f922c0f68297cd423a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Soo <j...@panosoft.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:51:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Try using any system installed console fonts.
---
gnu/services/base.scm | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 537d30add5..60d03df9ed 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -775,6 +775,13 @@ to add @var{device} to the kernel's entropy pool. The service will fail if
(usleep 500)
(loop (- i 1))))
+ ;; Try to use any other installed system fonts.
+ (catch #t
+ (lambda _
+ (chdir
+ "/run/current-system/profile/share/kbd/consolefonts"))
+ (lambda _ #t))
+
;; Assume the VT is already in UTF-8 mode, thanks to
;; the 'virtual-terminal' service.
;;
--
2.22.0
