Questions tagged [xft]
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Font rendering issue in urxvt -- too much space between characters
Starting earlier today I am getting font rendering issues with rxvt-unicode. Specifically with many fonts I get an abundance of extra space between characters. In other fonts rxvt refuses to change sizes.
Here is an example of the spacing issue…
casey
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Why is Xft ignoring font settings?
As you can see below, my Xft settings match exactly my fontconfig settings:
$ xrdb -query | grep -i xft
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.autohint: 1
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: none
$…
Ernest A
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Xft font specification in Rxvt: is it a client-side or server-side font?
I have a headless Gentoo box and would like to run X app on it but forward the display to a Cygwin Xorg server running on my Windows PC.
It works but I am not sure in this case if I specify some fonts to use in the X app, which font will be actually…
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Compiling Dwm to Arch Linux. Xft.h missing?
Trying to compile the Dwm Tile Manager (that uses Xorg ) on Arch Linux currently produces the following error (original attached file):
dwm build options:
CFLAGS = -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Os -I/usr/include/X11…
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How do I fc-match font of some particular encoding?
I was having a hard time setting font for xterm to use. I managed to do it with font resourse:
xterm*font: -*-terminus-medium-r-*--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
But I wonder what is the corresponding value for faceName resource? When I specify it like…
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Changing letterSpacing dynamically in urxvt
My URxvt configuration includes dynamic font settings for each F-key. With XFT fonts, I'm getting a very wide letter-spacing. I do not want to use the letterSpacing setting because my other font settings are not XFT, so spacing is fine. I toggle…
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How to know the font name of displayed characters? (X11/Xft)
I want to know the font name of displayed characters on any X application. Of course, I can know the font name by comparing the displayed characters with each font characters, but it takes a very long time. Is there any easier and wiser way?
When I…
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How to forbid an (emoji) font only for one software?
Context :
I'm using Luke Smith's version of st (suckless-terminal) with Monoid font for most Unicode symbols,
and I noticed it usually crash when it sees some emojis, like U1F970, st tries to load a color emoji font (currently, it's Apple Color…
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Downgrading libfontconfig1 causing Fontconfig error
During the building of dwm, I was prompted that X11/Xft/Xft.h cannot be found and apt-get can't install it because libfontconfig1 is 2.13.0-5 while 2.11.0 is required.
So I downgraded the libfontconfig1 to 2.11.0-6.7+b1 using aptitude, installed…
JiaHao Xu
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Xft:cannot enable font hinting
I cannot enable font hinting in programs which (as far as I understand) do not use the global fontconfig settings.
I first thought it was related only to urxvt.
urxvt -fn…
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XftFont error when running startx blackbox
So i recently installed blackbox wm on my minimal archlinux install i compiled everything step by step from their github repo now when i launch startx i throws this error:
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Current Operating System: Linux archiebox…
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