Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-07 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Hi, > I'm not opposed in switching fully to Xft. Xfonts are a mess as well. > > Though I'd really like to base st/dwm/dmenu on libsl/drw.c > > With this, dmenu/dwm/st would not directly depend on Xft/fontconfig, > but on drw only. Then it depends on the drw-implementation what it > uses interna

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi there, On 5 March 2015 at 02:36, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:09:23PM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote: >> If you're going to use the patch I submitted to the wiki with fallback >> font support, don't -- I fixed a couple of non-critical bugs I found >> after I submitted the patch to

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:09:23PM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote: > If you're going to use the patch I submitted to the wiki with fallback > font support, don't -- I fixed a couple of non-critical bugs I found > after I submitted the patch to the wiki, but I didn't bother to send in > a new patch since

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:09:23PM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:45:26PM +, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:32:57PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > > > There are lots of people coming on IRC every day asking about an issue > > > with dwm or dmenu font-ha

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:45:26PM +, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:32:57PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > > There are lots of people coming on IRC every day asking about an issue > > with dwm or dmenu font-handling so I had rather envisioned this change > > to be effective in

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:32:57PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > There are lots of people coming on IRC every day asking about an issue > with dwm or dmenu font-handling so I had rather envisioned this change > to be effective in the very near future to adress these problems, > though a libsl with drw.c is

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:27:14 +0100 Anselm R Garbe wrote: Hey Anselm, > I'm not opposed in switching fully to Xft. Xfonts are a mess as well. > > Though I'd really like to base st/dwm/dmenu on libsl/drw.c > > Point is dmenu/dwm are easy ones, problem is st, which uses quite > sophisticated font/

Re: [dev] [dwm] [dmenu] The Xft situation

2015-03-04 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi FRIGN, On 4 March 2015 at 19:57, FRIGN wrote: > for quite a while now, dwm and dmenu have had patches to add > Xft-support to them. There has been no version for current > git-checkouts and a considerate noise here on the mailing > list about people having trouble setting up fonts in dwm and >