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Malakian

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From: Poland

Registered: 2014-02-09

Posts: 4

[Solved] Greek letters in bar

Hi.

How can I name my workspaces in bspwm using greek letters (alpha, beta, gamma)?

Last edited by Malakian (2014-05-06 09:22:34)

mastorak

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Registered: 2014-04-01

Posts: 27

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

Are you able to see greek characters correctly in your system? Have you set the locale so that greek utf -8 characters are displayed corectly?
If not, go to /etc/locale.gen and uncomment the greek locale lines

el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8  
el_GR ISO-8859-7  

and then update the system with

locale-gen

I do not use  bspwm but from a quick look, and asssuming you can view and type greek UTF-8 characters, I imagine you add in your bspwmrc

bspc monitor -d α β γ δ ε ζ η θ

Last edited by mastorak (2014-04-01 20:36:36)

o_caino

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Registered: 2013-06-06

Posts: 167

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

mastorak's command is correct, but the problem seems to be bar's font, not bspwm.

I made a little script to try every font in my system and found that only the iso10646 ones display greek correctly. For example, this font works:

echo 'a b foo α β γ δ ε ζ η θ' | bar -p -f "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1"

You can find more iso10646 fonts using this:

xlsfonts | grep iso10646

Last edited by o_caino (2014-04-01 21:42:20)

Malakian

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From: Poland

Registered: 2014-02-09

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

I've already set the locales properly but I'm wondering if there is a way to type greek characters directly from keyboad?

SidK

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Registered: 2011-03-03

Posts: 116

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

setxkbmap -layout el

See Keyboard configuration in Xorg and Keyboard configuration in console

o_caino

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Registered: 2013-06-06

Posts: 167

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

Add a greek keyboard layout.

Malakian

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From: Poland

Registered: 2014-02-09

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

It works. Thank you guys.

o_caino

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Registered: 2013-06-06

Posts: 167

Re: [Solved] Greek letters in bar

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