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Re: [RP] Fonts
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Eric Smith |
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Re: [RP] Fonts |
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Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:23:02 -0400 |
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:31:36PM +0100, Philip Hudson wrote:
> This might be an ignorant question, but... is it possible to use OTF
> fonts under ratpoison, and if so, what do I need to do?
>
> Context: I like to use Inconsolata-dz in both terminal emulators and
> emacs. It shows up fine in both under Gnome -- I used the Gnome
> desktop GUI for installation, and a copy of the .otf file ended up in
> ~/.fonts -- but doesn't appear to show up in ratpoison, or else the
> metrics or something have changed, making the glyphs wider. I've lost
> 12 characters' width in my full-screen emacs frame.
>
> This is all on up-to-date Linux Mint running on a 4GB VirtualBox VM
> hosted on an 8GB Windows 7 box.
>
> I hope that's enough detail, and I'm asking the right question... I'm
> pretty sure this is the right place to ask it, anyway.
>
> --
> Phil Hudson PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63
>
I'm no expert on fonts or on how ratpoison uses them, but OTF fonts seem to
work fine here. I just tried the command 'ratpoison -c 'set font STIXGeneral',
and it switched fonts ok. I do have ratpoison compiled using "--with-xft",
which should be the default if you have libXft installed.
Eric
- [RP] Fonts, Philip Hudson, 2010/09/17
- Re: [RP] Fonts,
Eric Smith <=