Re: suckless font configuration

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:43:20PM +0200, Joerg Jung wrote:
>
>> Am 31.05.2020 um 15:49 schrieb Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>:
>> Let's do one thing at a time, if others later decide to change colors
>> they can do so, I'd like to fix the fonts due the implied dependencies,
>> all else I'd like to leave the any future porter/MAINTAINER.
>
>This topic comes up every few months for either of the suckless ports,
>see archives. Developers (e.g. tedu and myself), who are actively using
>dwm have stated that they prefer to keep color patches (across suckless
>ports) instead of following the randomly changing upstream colors -
>think of it as principal of least surprise after upgrades.
>
>IMHO this includes keeping Terminus, despite upstream dropped it long
>time ago already. So, I'm not in favor of the proposed patch, but would
>not object, if you insist on moving on this way.
>
>Either way, I can take care of maintaining DWM.

While fixing another font issue (bitmap fonts in gtk vim with new
pango), I figured out how to force a font upon a select program by
fontconfig. This might be used to "configure" suckless ports at least
fontwise.
This is how its done in `~/.fonts.conf`:

```
<fontconfig>
<match>
<test name="prgname">
<string>gvim</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family">
<string>Ttyp0</string>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="pixelsize">
<double>15</double>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
```

I believe there is also a st patch to use X resources for configuration.

Christopher


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