On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:17:38AM +0200, nyz forwarded:
> I am trying to figure out why BB's styles are not loading its fonts. For
> example, I downloaded the Squidish style from bb.themes.org and installed
> it. i copied the snap.pcf font to a font dir, ran mkfontdir on it and
> restarted my font server. restarted X with BB and the Squisdish style...
> everything loads OK, except for the snap font.
>
> xlsfonts do list the snap font as being accessible, and rxvt -fn snap does
> load a terminal with the snap font.
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
Quite possibly nothing.
The first question is what your locale is set to... unless it's C or
POSIX, you're probably going to have problems using custom fonts with
blackbox. Try running an 'echo $LC_ALL' (and maybe 'echo $LANG') in a
term and see what it spits back (if anything).
The problem with locales is that custom fonts don't provide all the
charsets needed to construct a font set for the current locale, so
blackbox expands the xlfd to include more options. The logic X uses
to pick fonts means you usually get a different font than the one
you intended.
This may or may not be the actual problem here, but if history is any
indication, it probably is. There are a few ways around it, some more
useful than others.
Jeff Raven
