On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Bryan Bennett <bbenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to get st to use Dina as it's font. At first, I couldn't get > st to read the font at all (it would die upon launching, saying it couldn't > find the font), but I've had issues with Dina before - the CP1252 > encoding was giving urxvt problems a while back so I re-encoded it > (to ISO8859-1) and tried again. Now st will launch - but the font looks > terrible.[1] I've uploaded my config.h[2], but the line that should be the > problem is: > > #define FONT "-*-dina-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > #define BOLDFONT "-*-dina-bold-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > That font declaration works fine in urxvt, though - so I'm lost. Are there > obvious changes that need to be made that I'm apparently missing? Is > there some difference in the way that suckless is doing this that is > affecting the way fonts are rendered or am I just doing it wrong? > > > > 1) http://ompldr.org/vOHY4OQ > 2) http://sprunge.us/XgKe > > I'm sorry won't be able to help much with your issue. But is there any need to use "st" as a terminal?. I just tried to use it, and it seems like it is a bit slow at rendering terminus font for ex. in comparison to other alternatives. And I found that it was buggy with some other fonts too. -- Tian