[openbox] Openbox popup

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Russell wrote:

> 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:~>

Your "$FONT" command works fine here.

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Mikael Magnusson