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| author | aszlig <aszlig@nix.build> | 2020-08-08 01:32:45 +0200 |
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| committer | aszlig <aszlig@nix.build> | 2020-08-08 02:56:40 +0200 |
| commit | 0171f8d895efd46300ba01c6adeb7aa5105ff5c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d0b437eebaaaa74971459483ff63412c48a4e0a /modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation | |
| parent | 9fc8d82e41c3434f8b36f12865a1ca8271495f7e (diff) | |
pprofiles/workstation: Use true type VGA font
The DOSEMU fonts we were using so far for CP437 were bitmap fonts only and with no unicode support. Luckily there is https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ - which is a really cool font pack containing all the cool oldschool fonts that I remember from my childhood and still use today for creating ASCII art. Since we recently* hit the 21st century, I think it's about time that even I should start having terminals with proper Unicode support. The latter is already the case, but the glyphs just didn't display correctly. The font that I switched to (MxPlus IBM VGA 8x16) is using embededd bitmaps, so I also enabled useEmbeddedBitmaps option, so that the font still looks as crisp as the old DOSEMU font. To make sure it really is the same font, I compared screenshots of all the CP437 characters with the new font and they match the old font 1:1. I also removed the liberation_ttf font, since it's already included by the default NixOS font configuration. * -> Your mileage may vary, but hey, the 90ies were yesterday, right? Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation')
| -rw-r--r-- | modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation/default.nix | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation/default.nix b/modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation/default.nix index bf7385ab..dbe0178f 100644 --- a/modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation/default.nix +++ b/modules/user/aszlig/profiles/workstation/default.nix @@ -52,10 +52,18 @@ in { fonts = { enableFontDir = true; enableGhostscriptFonts = true; - fonts = [ - pkgs.dosemu_fonts - pkgs.liberation_ttf - ]; + fontconfig.useEmbeddedBitmaps = true; + # TODO: Switch to nixpkgs version once version 2.0 lands. + fonts = lib.singleton (pkgs.fetchzip { + name = "oldschool-pc-font-pack-2.0"; + url = "https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/" + + "oldschool_pc_font_pack_v2.0_ttf.zip"; + sha256 = "0z0fw6ni7iq806y4m83xrfx46r14xxxql09ch2gxjqi062awqyh8"; + postFetch= '' + mkdir -p $out/share/fonts/truetype + unzip -j $downloadedFile \*.ttf -d "$out/share/fonts/truetype" + ''; + }); }; vuizvui.user.aszlig.services.i3.enable = true; @@ -164,7 +172,9 @@ in { displayManager.sessionCommands = '' ${pkgs.xorg.xrdb}/bin/xrdb "${pkgs.writeText "xrdb.config" '' XTerm*termName: xterm-256color - XTerm*font: vga + XTerm*faceName: MxPlus IBM VGA 8x16 + XTerm*faceSize: 12 + XTerm*renderFont: true XTerm*saveLines: 10000 XTerm*bellIsUrgent: true XTerm*background: black |