On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:31:36PM +0100, Philip Hudson wrote: > This might be an ignorant question, but... is it possible to use OTF > fonts under ratpoison, and if so, what do I need to do? > > Context: I like to use Inconsolata-dz in both terminal emulators and > emacs. It shows up fine in both under Gnome -- I used the Gnome > desktop GUI for installation, and a copy of the .otf file ended up in > ~/.fonts -- but doesn't appear to show up in ratpoison, or else the > metrics or something have changed, making the glyphs wider. I've lost > 12 characters' width in my full-screen emacs frame. > > This is all on up-to-date Linux Mint running on a 4GB VirtualBox VM > hosted on an 8GB Windows 7 box. > > I hope that's enough detail, and I'm asking the right question... I'm > pretty sure this is the right place to ask it, anyway. > > -- > Phil Hudson PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 >
I'm no expert on fonts or on how ratpoison uses them, but OTF fonts seem to work fine here. I just tried the command 'ratpoison -c 'set font STIXGeneral', and it switched fonts ok. I do have ratpoison compiled using "--with-xft", which should be the default if you have libXft installed. Eric _______________________________________________ Ratpoison-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ratpoison-devel
