Re: with or without xft

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:33:25PM +0200, Lich 0x2B wrote :
> Using ` set font "Terminus-10" ` here, with xft enabled of course. RP
> does a good job of it.

Yeah, thanks for your test :) It helped me, I was trying:
set font Terminus 10
(without the '-') it didn't worked, not all's ok with "Terminus-10" :)

> On 2/16/10, Shawn Betts <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2010/2/15 CSM 'illovae' Seldon <[email protected]>:
> >> Hello :)
> >>
> >> I have a little question but after, let me explain the situation.
> >>
> >> I've compiled the last RP 1.4.5 ; I've noticed a new option in the
> >> configure (actually I'm upgrading from RP 1.4.0 beta4) :
> >> --without-xft
> >>
> >> Because I'm not using xft fonts, I did ./configure --without-xft
> >> In my ~/.ratpoisonrc I have :
> >> set font "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> >> which you certainly know is a fixed font. Everything's ok.
> >
> > When you enable xft, I'm pretty sure you need to use the xft font
> > definition format, not the regular X one, above. So maybe try
> > "Terminus 12".
> >
> > Remember, anything you put in your rc file will work on the C-t :
> > command prompt. That way you can quickly try different things until
> > it
> > works.

Oh yeah, it works :] I wasn't thinking using xft font definition format
but it makes sense! I'm using the old way definition since years and I
wasn't thinking that xft can not handle it!


Lich 0x2B, Shawn, thank you both for your answers :)

Regards,

-- illovae

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