On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ilias Tsitsimpis <i.tsitsim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi suckless team, > > I noticed that dmenu doesn't complain when supplied with a font that > doesn't exist (e.g., dmenu -fn suckless). > > I found the following line in the code: > > drw.c:134 fprintf(stderr, "error, cannot load font: '%s'\n", fontname); > > so I am guessing this is a bug and not the intended behavior. >
I'm aware of this behaviour, it is "intended" as we use Xft and it's not too bothersome. Ofcourse you can use the fc-match program to see what font actually will be used. Note that dmenu will error out when no font can be loaded: if (!drw->fontcount) in dmenu.c. Kind regards, Hiltjo