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
Thanks, I've pushed an improvement to the docs that mentions this.
~d
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Adam Sjøgren
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
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