On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote:
> yay. this windings approach looks cool. Can you explain in a wiki/web > the steps to create such font file, and how to do your setup? > > i will probably not use it.. but i think it can be useful for things like > swk or dzen. > at least it simplifies a lot the image support with X api.. > > --pancake > > > On 05/19/2011 03:28 PM, Andrew Hills wrote: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Le Tian<tiane...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> yes, I checked this and when I "xterm -fn >>> /usr/share/fonts/my_fancy_font.pcf.gz"; "echo -e "\xA1"" to get my custom >>> icon, I get a (?) sign, so as it looks like impossible for xterm to show >>> the >>> value of "A1"(that is my icon index number). >>> >> No, you can't use the path to the font. You need to add it to the font >> path in X and then reference it BY NAME. Set the name when you edit >> the font, do the xset commands I listed earlier, and try again. If you >> name your font "myfancyfont", for example, you should be able to refer >> to it as -*-myfancyfont-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* in xfontsel. If you >> can't do that, you won't be able to use your font at all outside of >> the font editor. >> >> --Andrew Hills >> >> to pancake: > As soon as I will make it myself, I will. This is not my method. It was > advised by a nice guy on one of the arch forum threads. > here is a link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92895 -- Tian
