Re: [dev] about patch xft on FreeBSD

From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 03:40:31 +0100

On Sun, 13 May 2012 22:06:23 -0400
Lee F. <REMOVED_UPON_REQUEST_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I do that but doesn't work because I used XLFDs. I've made
> improvements so it uses xftpatterns and doesn't have that (BAD) memory
> leak. I'll get it up by tomorrow. It now works with dwm-tip, so there
> should be zero problems. Sorry for the hassle! It's my first time working
> with Xft/X in general.

Ah... A program which accepts XLFDs should accept "fixed" or other
aliases, 1-word or not. If you want to drop that for simplicity's sake
or whatever then you lose the reliable way to get a default font, but I
guess it's not too terrible a problem to have.

>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 5 May 2012 20:22:57 -0400
> > Lee F. <REMOVED_UPON_REQUEST_AT_gmail.com> wrote:w
> >
> > > fix dwm so if it can't find the font it'll load some default one that's
> >
> > fixed. Everything falls back to fixed which is an alias expected to
> > be present on every X server.
> >
> >
Received on Mon May 14 2012 - 04:40:31 CEST