Thanks Ludo! I really appreciate how engaged you are btw. Thanks so much. But yes I agree I’d rather not change the directory either. I will see what I can do and report back.
John > On Jul 11, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi John, > > John Soo <js...@asu.edu> skribis: > >> 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. > > What about doing something like this in your config > > (console-font-service "tty1" > (file-append some-font-package > "/share/consolefonts/whatever")) > > ? > > Does it work for you? > > This approach has the advantage that the service doesn’t need to be > changed, and it doesn’t need to change the current directory of PID 1 > either. > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
