Re: Fonts

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