Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade
Hi,
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:02:08 -0400 (EDT)
Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> wrote:
> Thanks to those who chimed in!
>
> My focus today is on those lines in ~/.icewm/preferences that
> specify fonts for the task bar. I have in mind such statements
> as:
>
> NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="DejaVuSans-Bold,sans-serif:size=18"
> ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft="DejaVuSans-Bold,sans-serif:size=18"
>
> I suspect the syntax of my lines does not represent actual fonts
> that are available on this machine.
>
> Can anyone provide a critique of that syntax?
according to https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm-preferences the syntax for
using a bold font should rather be:
ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12:bold” .
That comma-separated font list thing does not seem to work (at least not
with the IceWM version from Buster); since I suspect that "DejaVuSans"
and "sans-serif" might be equivalent here, I tried with a different font
here:
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="Akkadian,sans-serif:size=11:bold"
This gives me the Akkadian font with normal (or medium) weight.
Changing the first font name to one that does not exist, like
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="Akadian,sans-serif:size=11:bold"
gives me a normal weight default/fallback font. Likewise
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="Akkadian:size=11:bold,sans-serif:size=11:bold"
resp.
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="Akadian:size=11:bold,sans-serif:size=11:bold"
gives me a bold Akkadian font resp. that same normal weight default
fallback font as above.
I have some doubt though, that this has anything to do with your original
problem.
Best regards
Michael
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