I was experimenting with switching from dmenu to XMonad.Prompt.Shell. With dmenu I can get the font I want by passing the argument '-fn "DejaVu Sans Condensed-8:normal"' (a truetype font, using xft). I would like the same in XMonad.Prompt.Shell. xfontsel(1) of course does not list truetype fonts, and the documentation only says: "data XPConfig Constructors XPC font :: String Font" - http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Prompt.html So if anyone else runs into this: what you need to know/guess is to prefix the 'font' with "xft:" in your configuration; i.e.: myPromptConfig = defaultXPConfig { position = Top -- ... , font = "xft:DejaVu Sans Condensed-8" } Best regards, Adam -- "How are you this tiny and this strong? You are Adam Sjøgren like an ant!" asjo@koldfront.dk