On 19.10.2011 06:58, 曹思亮 wrote: > This is what i3-wm does. > > I like xft, but I prefer bitmap font at smaller size. although xft > also has bitmap fonts, it seems that xfs handle bitmap font better. > > So, if I want to change my default font to xfs, what should I write > for the value of "theme.font"?
Awesome uses pango's cairo backend for drawing text. Pango does have a backend for using server-side bitmap fonts, but it is deprecated and unmaintained since 2008. So no, I guess you can't use server side fonts with awesome. Also, to quote wikipedia: :-) "The creator of Wayland mentioned XLFDs as a primary example of what is wrong with X." --- cut here, bullshit only follows --- I don't know where you got "xfs" from, but that's a file system, not something that handles fonts. I don't think there is any "standardized" name for this. It can be called "core fonts" since the requests for these are part of X11's core protocol while xft uses the RENDER extension. Also, xft usually stands for the "X FreeType interface library" which only let's you use the freetype library with X11. The whole concept here is the opposite of server-side fonts. Instead of having a hardcoded list of fonts in the X11 server which can't be changed, clients upload the fonts that they want to the server. So this means that drawing text through Xft / cairo allows you to use any font you want while server-side fonts only have a predefined list. I checked my Xorg.0.log and my server font path contains e.g. /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc which contains a lot of gzipped pcf files. Google then found this: --- cut here, bullshit only above --- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2006-January/msg00001.html I haven't tested this myself, but according to that mailing list thread, you can use .pcf fonts with some fontconfig magic (copying the file to the right place, running fc-cache to get a fonts.cache file which fontconfig (oh, I forgot fontconfig in my above list!) then uses to find the font which means that xft & pango will be able to use the font). Sadly, I don't found any good tutorial for that when googling for "pango pcf font". Hope this helps, Uli -- - Buck, when, exactly, did you lose your mind? - Three months ago. I woke up one morning married to a pineapple. An ugly pineapple... But I loved her. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
