On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Robert Ransom <rransom.8...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 20:45:17 +0300 > Le Tian <tiane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Recently I've bumped into a thread with a nice solution to takbar icons > in > > dwm via editing any pcf font. So I converted pcf to bdf and with gbdfed > util > > created some new icons. After that I reconverted new bdf font to pcf and > put > > it into a font folder, after that I modified my config.h so it grabbed > this > > fancy font of mine. Then I edited my config script for a dwm taskbar by > > adding my icons index numbers > > like this: > > > > cpu_str=$(echo -e cpu:'\0000') > > > > 0000 is my first icon number in the font table in gbdfed, but that do not > > work, so I'm asking now if I am wrong with syntax, how do I point to > these > > icons that I created? > > You probably won't be able to display character 0, because most C > programs use that to indicate the end of a string. > > > Robert Ransom > well, yeah I tried, but its not the issue. I wonder if anybody in dwm community managed to make taskbar icons this way. I have a screenshot here http://bildr.no/view/664213 <http://bildr.no/view/664213>This method seems pretty nice, but somehow I still can't make my modified font icons work, I made an icon under 0045 index, that replaced "E" letter, but after setting the font in xterm via "setfont /usr/share/fonts/myfancyfont.pcf.gz" and running echo -e "\x45", I still get an "E" letter, as if nothing had been modified..(scratch). -- Tian
