Re: [xmonad] Japanese fonts in an XFT xmobar or dzen panel with dynamiclog

On 11/10/11 13:18, wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:

Quoting Daniel Anderson :

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It will render the japanese font if I set my font to be an actual japanese font like takao, but I'd like to have my full range of fonts work so it will render korean and other characters.

Anyone know a solution to this? normally with any gtk/qt app, it will obey my fontconfig settings, though dzen and xmobar do not.

You will probably have to patch them to add fontconfig support. Alternately, consider using taffybar, which is gtk-based and therefore probably comes with fontconfig support for free.

If I want to use taffybar on top of my Ubuntu 10.10 xmonad, what am I going to need to do/install? When I git clone the specified repo, I get sources but there are no instructions on how to build them. Michael