Friday, November 23, 2018

Re: Patch to enable XFT on lemonbar

Hi Joel --

On 11/22/18 6:53 PM, Joel Carnat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a journey to find a statusbar for cwm, I found that x11/lemonbar
> didn't support XFT. I used sources from https://github.com/krypt-n/bar
> to compile on OpenBSD 6.4/amd64 and it seems to work. So far, it
> compiles, lemonbar starts and renders text using xft:Sans:size=11.
>
> Find the relevant patches attached.
>
> Regards,
> Jo
>

This would additionally need a REVISION bump in the port Makefile.
But this seems rather large and invasive. That's not a "no" in and of
itself, but would it make more sense to send this upstream, or perhaps
switch to that forked repo with this already included?

~Brian

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