[openbox] trouble using Artwiz fonts in Openbox 3.4.4

Dave Foster daf at minuslab.net
Mon Sep 17 13:19:24 EDT 2007


The simple solution is to get artwiz-aleczapka, which is packaged by 
most distros.

Has something to do with the fonts being Xft aware?  Or similar?

daf


Michael Andrus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble configuring OpenBox 3.4.4 to use the fonts by Artwiz.
>
> The font "nu" does not show up in the Appearance/font selection dialog 
> of obconf but does show up under xfontsel and can be used by other 
> applications.
>
> I have modified my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml so that the ActiveWindow 
> font entry looks like this:
>
>     <font place="ActiveWindow">
>       <name>nu</name>
>       <size>11</size>
> <!-- font size in points -->
>       <weight>normal</weight>
> <!-- 'bold' or 'normal' -->
>       <slant>r</slant>
> <!-- 'italic' or 'normal' -->
>     </font>
>
> I got those settings from xfontsel.
>
> I have also tried only specifying the font name and leaving off the 
> size, weight, and slant options.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Michael




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