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letian

Member

Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 11

Patching dmenu to support xft fonts!

Ok, I wonder why nobody has ever put this one up, but here is it now.
I was trying to make dmenu4.5 work with xft fonts, downloaded source code and patch from suckless site here. I tried other sources but unfortunately I ran into a nasty

patch: **** strip count l is not a number

error upon patching the file every time. Searching the web didn't provide any results so I decided to go back to AUR and download the patch from there. And voila!

patch -l < dmenu-4.5-xft.diff 
patching file config.mk
patching file dmenu.1
patching file dmenu.c
patching file draw.c
patching file draw.h

Then hit

sudo make clean install

and test the result with:

dmenu_run -b -fn 'Monospace-12' -nb black -nf blue -sb grey20

Mind that dmenu would open in the bottom if  '-b' option is provided.
Cheers!

Last edited by letian (2013-08-14 18:21:36)

kiiroitori

#! CrunchBanger

From: Tokyo, Japan

Registered: 2010-12-07

Posts: 229

Re: Patching dmenu to support xft fonts!

Hi letian,

Thanks for the info, it works nicely!

I modified my dmenu-bind.sh file in /.config/dmenu/ and now my dmenu looks much better.

Thanks!

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