On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Cheer Xiao <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/3/11 Fernando Lemos <[email protected]>:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I did a git am:
>
> ~/src/i3$ git log
>
> commit 3389908a213b2afba75fe61c92466a08aefb24c5
> Author: Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos <[email protected]>
> Date:   Mon Nov 14 21:39:03 2011 -0200
>
>    Implement Pango rendering.
>
> ...

Please add some logging, run i3 with full debug verbosity[1] and see
if you can spot what went wrong. I can't see how the message you
reported would be possible at all with the Pango patches.

[1]: http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html

Regards,

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