On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Cheer Xiao <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/3/11 Fernando Lemos <[email protected]>: >> [...snip...] >> Hi, >> >> That's exactly how you should specify the font. :-) >> >> Check your logs, that's probably not a valid font description. After >> "xft:", you can specify any Pango font description. I personally use >> "font xft:Sans 8". > > So I switched to a simpler one, "font Consolas 10". Problem still. In > the log there is a line > > ERROR: Could not open font xft:Consolas 10 (X error 15). Trying > fallback to 'fixed'. > > and far below that, just before I restart i3: > > [src/xcb.c:945] ERROR: Could not open font. X Error Code: 15 > > Weird since src/xcb.c doesn't has line 945... I also noticed that > i3bar disappeared too, but there is no log message related to that.
src/xcb.c:945 is in i3bar/src/xcb.c (it's probably i3bar's stderr). The "xft:" prefix is only handled if your i3 is patched, which leads me to think that you're getting that message from an unpatched i3/i3bar. Regards,
