[dev] Re: [dwm] Most fonts do not work

2015-01-21 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2015-01-20, 21:32, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Joshua Krämer said: > > I have figured it out myself: the non-working fonts are available > > with utf8 encoding only, but dwm (without Xft patch) does not > > support utf8. > > Sorry, but this doesn't m

[dev] Re: [dwm] Most fonts do not work

2015-01-20 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2015-01-18, 17:58, Joshua Krämer wrote: > I have a problem with dwm (current git without patches): I cannot use > most of the fonts I have tried. [...] I have figured it out myself: the non-working fonts are available with utf8 encoding only, but dwm (without Xft patch) does not s

[dev] Re: [dwm] Most fonts do not work

2015-01-18 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2015-01-18, 18:35, Markus Teich wrote: > Could you check your fontpath directly before starting dwm? If it's > different than during your session, add the missing entries with xset > before starting dwm. Thanks for the hint. I have added a check to my .xsession script, and the fontpath is not

[dev] [dwm] Most fonts do not work

2015-01-18 Thread Joshua Krämer
Hi all, I have a problem with dwm (current git without patches): I cannot use most of the fonts I have tried. For example, Misc Fixed works, Lucida shows only weird glyphs, Helvetica is distorted. Misc Fixed works using this line: static const char font[] = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-