Infinality fontconfig fallback fonts

quiv · 2014-02-20 02:12:25

I'm brand new to linux and have been muddling through setting up my system for the last few days. I'm using termite which to my knowledge as a VTE-based terminal should support fontconfig. The font I'm using in termite is Phallus' Lemon font. Now while I was configuring ncmpcpp I wanted to use a glyph that I saw in some configs that looks like ░ for the progressbar. However this glyph isn't in the lemon font and so displays as a filled-in-box instead. I then found another font called Tewi which has a simliar looking glyph. When I changed my termite font to Tewi and use the glyph I would like, it shows up fine.

Is it possible however to use Lemon as the font and if there is a glyph that isn't supported to have it use the Tewi glyph instead? Like a sort of fallback. Use x font, but if glyph y isn't in font x then use font z for that glyph only. I think this sort of thing is possible using fontconfig? However I'm unsure of how to set up the appropriate rules for this to say, for bitmap fonts I want to use Lemon first, then Tewi.

I did try to read the fontconfig wiki about this issue but I couldn't understand it very well. I'm not sure where to make these type of changes, if they're even possible, while using Infinality.

Thanks for any help!

brebs · 2014-02-20 09:03:56

AFAIK you'd have to edit the Lemon font - fontconfig can't swap fonts for individual characters.

pernia · 2019-10-21 02:03:24

just install unifont font. it works for almost every glyph and the fonts aren't illegible for different languages. its in the official repos

WorMzy · 2019-10-21 08:08:11

Please don't necrobump, pernia.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping%22

Closing.

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#1 2014-02-20 02:12:25

Infinality fontconfig fallback fonts

#2 2014-02-20 09:03:56

Re: Infinality fontconfig fallback fonts

#3 2019-10-21 02:03:24

Re: Infinality fontconfig fallback fonts

#4 2019-10-21 08:08:11

Re: Infinality fontconfig fallback fonts

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