Re: [dev] Profont in dwm

From: Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar_AT_eumx.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:12:45 +0000

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:03:08PM +0000, Rob wrote:
> > "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-", which is what dwm
> > requires. I'm not incredibly knowledgeable about fonts on linux, so
> > I'm not really sure what to do. I would, however, like to stop using
> > terminus in the status bar in favour of profont, so I'd like to know
> > how to specify profont with such a string.
>
> I use profont and
>
> static const char font[] = "-*-*-profont-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
>
> works fine for me. Although profont shows up in xfontsel for me too,
> so perhaps you need to run fc-cache, mkfontscale, mkfontdir, or some
> other font utility.
>

Try xset +fp, that's what I'm using to add terminus.
Received on Mon Jan 04 2010 - 16:12:45 UTC

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