Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

From: Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:18:20 +0000

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:09:23PM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:45:26PM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:32:57PM +0100, FRIGN wrote:
> > > There are lots of people coming on IRC every day asking about an issue
> > > with dwm or dmenu font-handling so I had rather envisioned this change
> > > to be effective in the very near future to adress these problems,
> > > though a libsl with drw.c is the holy grail. ^^
> >
> > I agree with FRIGN here. I'd prefer to have Xft applied to dwm/dmenu
> > for the time being.
> >
> > Adding the relevant interfaces in drw.c sounds like an awesome idea.
> > If nothing else, I think it can be hacked in 1 day at slcon2 :D
>
> If you're going to use the patch I submitted to the wiki with fallback
> font support, don't -- I fixed a couple of non-critical bugs I found
> after I submitted the patch to the wiki, but I didn't bother to send in
> a new patch since my old one hadn't been approved yet. I can post the
> updated patch to this thread in ~6 hours if you guys do intend to use
> the code I wrote.

Please do, and even if it is decided not to include Xft in dwm/dmenu,
we should at least update the wiki.
Received on Wed Mar 04 2015 - 21:18:20 CET