[Nix-dev] Terminus console font

[M. P. Ashton]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014, at 02:20 PM, Dmitry Malikov wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of X server, that why I'm spending my time inside a 
> tty and virtual terminals. Default fonts that NixOS offers are not 
> perfectly suite my eyes that why I'm looking for a way to use terminus 
> font there.
> 
> I.e. in Gentoo OS there is a `consoleFont` variable which could be set 
> to "ter-116n" value to get terminus in Xless console. I'm trying to do 
> the same via setting `i18n.consoleFont = "ter-116n"`([1]) , but it do 
> nothing.
> 
> Also as you see `pkgs.terminus_font` is added to the `fonts.fonts` 
> statement, that why I'm assuming terminus font is installed in my system.
> 
> have you guys achieved it? What am I doing wrong?

What works for me is the line:

i18n.consoleFont = "Lat2-Terminus16";

cheers --Michael

> 
> [1] - 
> https://github.com/dmalikov/dotfiles/blob/master/nixos/configuration.nix
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> dmitry malikov
> !
> 
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