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Where/How are the fonts configured in swaywm?

I saw reference to .Xresources/.Xdefaults being used for some things https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sway#Xresources

What does Xresources handle if anything?

If Xresources is used for all of sway's font configuration, what values can be configured?

Is fontconfig https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/ the best way or even possible?

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  • I assume that most applications still rely on XWayland, as they don't have native wayland support. Therefore, it stands to reason that `.Xresources` or specifically`.Xdefaults` is still relevant. Perhaps I misunderstood your question, though? – ILMostro_7 Sep 10 '19 at 01:38
  • That is part of it. I was also wondering how to set the sway inteface fonts (window title bar, etc.), and how to set fonts for wayland stuff generally. About 50% of the stuff I have open at any time is running on wayland instead of xwayland. – SultanLegend Sep 10 '19 at 16:15

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According to the man page 5 for sway

man 5 sway

You can set the font for the titles of windows and the bar command (probably for other things as well) using a line in your config. This is what I added to my

~/.config/sway/config

file

font pango:SourceCodePro Medium 11

I wanted to use the SourceCodePro font. Its package name on archlinux is

adobe-source-code-pro-fonts

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