Re: [dwm] Cannot use some fonts in dwm

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:36:01PM -0700, Ning Bao wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed some Chinese fonts on (K)ubuntu 7.04 and it works fine in
> other WMs.
>
> -*-wenquanyi bitmap song-*-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> >
>
> However, I used xfontsel to produce the font configuration line,
>
> ning_AT_LiveStrong-Kubuntu:~$ DISPLAY=:1 dwm &
> [4] 16044
> ning_AT_LiveStrong-Kubuntu :~$ dwm: missing fontset: ISO10646-1
> dwm: missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0
> dwm: missing fontset: GB2312.1980-0
> dwm: missing fontset: KSC5601.1987-0
> dwm: missing fontset: JISX0208.1983-0
> dwm: missing fontset: ISO8859-1
> dwm: missing fontset: ISO8859-1
> error, cannot load font: '-*-wenquanyi bitmap
> song-*-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1;
> fixing.
> Extended Input Devices not yet supported. Impelement it at line 625 in
> ../../../../hw/kdrive/src/kinput.c
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing
> from list!
> but dwm cannot start and shows the following error message in my console:
>
>
> I can also see my font installed by fc-list and xlsfont. Can someone help
> me?

Make sure the font is not an xft font, dwm does not support Xft.

Regards,

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