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I am trying to change the font for dmenu. It follows all my color options but it only will display the default font no matter what I put in for a font. I used the font string from the wiki and tried a number of other but nothing. Any ideas what I might be missing?
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dmenu_path | dmenu -nb '#000000' -nf '#ffffff' -sb '#1793D1' -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' -b
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Xorg is finicky about the path to pcf fonts. I've had to add the following to the bottom of the Files section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in order for legacy x apps to work properly with my fonts:
Section "Files"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" # for terminus and other local fonts
FontPath "/home/thayer/.fonts" # for local fonts
FontPath "/home/thayer/.fonts/bitmaps" # for local bitmaps
EndSection
thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca
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I already have
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
in my xorg.conf already and I don't have any local fonts. Still dmenu will only show the default font and nothing else.
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If you don't have /usr/share/fonts/local/ then you probably don't have terminus.
$ pacman -S terminus-font
Last edited by Aprz (2008-10-20 06:02:55)
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Terminus fonts are installed. I have tried many other fonts also that I do have installed but still dmenu only uses the default font.
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No idea, sorry...how are you executing dmenu? Is it possible you're executing the wrong script? When you run xfontsel can you select Terminus as a font choice?
thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca
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