Re: TWM: truetype support

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Eeri Kask wrote:
> Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Eeri Kask wrote:
>>> So compile with  -DTWM_USE_XFT  -I/usr/include/freetype2  -lXft

>>> Then insert

>>> TitleFont    "sans-9"
>>> MenuFont    "sans-9"
>>> IconFont    "sans-9:bold"
>>> IconManagerFont    "sans-9"
>>> ResizeFont    "sans-10:bold"

>>> If you are a twm user, please test it; what do you think? :-)

>> I have refit this to our current source.  However, I don't think the
>> default fonts `twm` uses should be changed as doing so will surprise
>> many users.  It appears that restoring the previous defaults would only
>> require additional changes to InitVariables() in twm.c and GetFont() in
>> util.c.

>> Comments?

> Wait, please, don't commit yet!  :-)

OK.

> I am afraid we need to change "fixed" and "variable" in twm.c if Xft is
> included because xft-subsystem crashes (at least mine) if one uses these
> in XftFontOpenXlfd(), probably because these names are not
> XLFD-compliant. (xft should not crash because of that, but it is xft's
> problem, not ours.)  So as long as default font names (or user-specified
> font names in .twmrc) are xlfd-conform one can use these as usual, in
> that regard nothing has changed.  If I am correct the choice of "fixed"
> as a default font is always justified by the fact that this font is
> guaranteed present in every X11 installation and so it is a very
> reasonable decision.  Concerning xft I believe having read Keith Packard
> "sans", "serif" and "mono" should be expected included in every xft
> installation, so I chose "sans-10" and "mono-10" as a replacement for
> "variable" and "fixed" in twm.c.
> This is the story to that decision. :-)

This can be remedied with the use of XListFonts().

Marc.

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