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cviorel

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Registered: 2010-11-26

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] xlock ignores font specified in .Xresources

Yesterday I updated my system and one of the updated packages was xlockmore.
Since then I noticed that xlock ignores the instructions in .Xdefaults.
How can I get it to use Terminus font again?

Here is the info about my system:

[~] pacman -Qi xlockmore

Name           : xlockmore
Version        : 5.42-1
Description    : screen saver / locker for the X Window System
Architecture   : i686
URL            : http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html
Licenses       : BSD
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : freetype2  gtk2  libxpm  lesstif  pam  libxmu  glu
Optional Deps  : fortune-mod [installed]
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 3089.00 KiB
Packager       : Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Wed 17 Apr 2013 03:39:07 PM EEST
Install Date   : Thu 18 Apr 2013 02:02:34 PM EEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature


[~] grep -i xlock .Xresources | grep font
XLock.font: 				-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1
XLock.planfont: 			-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1
XLock.messagefont: 			-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1


[~] xlsfonts | grep 'xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1$' | sort -u
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1


[~] xlock -resources | grep font

XLock.fpsfont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.planfont: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.fontset: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--24-*
XLock.planfontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*
XLock.messagefont: -*-times-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Last edited by cviorel (2013-04-23 09:31:30)

vitor14

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From: /dev/urandom

Registered: 2013-04-19

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] xlock ignores font specified in .Xresources

Same problem here. xlockmore-5.41 gives:

$ xlock -resources|grep font
XLock.fpsfont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.planfont: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.messagefont: -*-times-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

While xlockmore-5.42 gives two more lines:

$ xlock -resources|grep font
XLock.fpsfont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.planfont: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLock.fontset: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--24-*
XLock.planfontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*
XLock.messagefont: -*-times-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

I don't have any instruction in .Xresources for xlock, but the font used to be enjoyably small (some monospace font, maybe terminus). After upgrade it's big and ugly; I can't tell its name just by looking at it, but it's a serif font. I have terminus-font installed and a bunch of Windows-compatible fonts manually copied to /usr/share/fonts, and anyway it mustn't be a font problem because as I said version 5.41 works just fine.

The output in the console where I invoked xinit is identical for both versions:

xlock: can not find font: -b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using fixed...
libGL error: some driver error here...

(I believe the libGL thing is because I use the atunnels screensaver.)

Both versions generate:

$ pacman -Ql xlockmore
xlockmore /usr/
xlockmore /usr/bin/
xlockmore /usr/bin/xglock
xlockmore /usr/bin/xlock
xlockmore /usr/bin/xmlock
xlockmore /usr/share/
xlockmore /usr/share/X11/
xlockmore /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/
xlockmore /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XLock
xlockmore /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XmLock
xlockmore /usr/share/licenses/
xlockmore /usr/share/licenses/xlockmore/
xlockmore /usr/share/licenses/xlockmore/LICENSE
xlockmore /usr/share/man/
xlockmore /usr/share/man/man1/
xlockmore /usr/share/man/man1/xlock.1.gz
xlockmore /usr/share/xlock/
xlockmore /usr/share/xlock/xglockrc

I ran diff on the two versions of xlockmore /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XLock (I guess it's some sort of config file) and they are identical.

cviorel

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Registered: 2010-11-26

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] xlock ignores font specified in .Xresources

Solved by setting

   -fontset fontsetname         # fontset to use for Xmb
   -planfontset fontsetname     # fontset to use for Xmb
in Xresources file like this:

XLock.fontset: 				-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1
XLock.planfontset: 			-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1

vitor14

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From: /dev/urandom

Registered: 2013-04-19

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] xlock ignores font specified in .Xresources

Nice, but this sudden behavior change prompted me to search for alternatives and try slock. Way less bloated, configured at compile time = less subject to those problems that come without prior notice.