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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36014: [PATCH] Attempt to use console-fonts not provided by kbd
 if they are installed
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 22:49:41 +0200
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 (John Soo's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:27:15 +0000")
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To: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
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Hi John,

John Soo <jsoo1@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=E2=80=99t need to be
changed, and it doesn=E2=80=99t need to change the current directory of PID=
=C2=A01
either.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.