[openbox] Openbox popup

[John Russell]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:56:37 +0100 (CET), Mikael Magnusson
<mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Russell wrote:
> > All I get when using osd_cat is
> >
> > ABORT: Requested font not found
> >
> > when using any font except fixed which is illegible.  I even used
> > xfontsel to create the real font string.  Nothing works.  Even the
> > veranda one you have here.  Am I don't something else wrong?
> 
> If you're trying to use a font called veranda i can see why it doesn't
> find the font :) also be sure to quote the * or the shell might try to
> expand them to filenames.
> 

I tried single quotes, double quotes, variables.  Nothing.  And this
is the font string I got from xfontsel......


mendelssohn:~> FONT="-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-34-240-*-*-p-*-*-*"
mendelssohn:~> echo $FONT
-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-34-240-*-*-p-*-*-*
mendelssohn:~> echo something | osd_cat --font='$FONT' --color=green
ABORT: Requested font not found
mendelssohn:~> echo something | osd_cat --font="$FONT" --color=green
ABORT: Requested font not found
mendelssohn:~> echo something | osd_cat
--font='-adobe-helvetica-bold-*-normal-*-34-240-*-*-p-*-*-*'
--color=green
ABORT: Requested font not found
mendelssohn:~>