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plymouth: set custom font
Sets the user configured font in plymouth. On my setup plymouth only seemed to accept / work with truetype fonts and i didn't find any documentation for plymouth mentioning fonts at all, so the script checks for that first and falls back to converting another font format to ttf with fontforge.
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I have since read more about fonts in plymouth and as i understand it only truetype and opentype are supported with opentype being the preferred format. I am not sure if there is a way to have the derivation point to a .otf
or .ttf
file, or if the extension even needs to be in the name of the derivation for that matter, so i chose to ignore truetype and convert everything that is not already opentype to that format instead. If anyone has a way of allowing both formats input would be appreciated :)
I have since read more about fonts in plymouth and as i understand it only truetype and opentype are supported with opentype being the preferred format. I am not sure if there is a way to have the derivation point to a
.otf
or.ttf
file, or if the extension even needs to be in the name of the derivation for that matter, so i chose to ignore truetype and convert everything that is not already opentype to that format instead. If anyone has a way of allowing both formats input would be appreciated :)
I have not done any further research on this, but would it be possible to extract the font types from certain paths? Maybe the nerdfont
package is helpfull: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/data/fonts/nerdfonts/default.nix.
For reference, there is an open issue regarding fonts: https://github.com/danth/stylix/issues/308.