Attached is a patch adding xft support to dmenu 4.0. I claim no copyright as it is little more than mimicing patterns I found in Alexander Polakov's 3.4 patch and Robert Manea's dzen xft support. I have attempted to follow the suckless paradigm as much as possible (e.g. config.mk). xft support is optional and when it is enabled it does not remove classic x11 fonts (as Alexander Polakov's patch did). An xft font specification is recognized by the presence of a "xft:" prefix; anything else is treated as classic x11.
Other changes: I removed support for a selected foreground color as dmenu never actually used it. This allowed the width of the help message to remain unchanged when I added a -bh (bar height) option. This option is orthogonal to xft support. Motivation for bar height is covered in my recent "Some Gnome fit and finish work" posting to the xmonad mail list. Ideally I would like to see this patch included in dmenu so that in time it can become part of main stream distributions. If there is no chance of that happening then what is the proper place at suckless.org to post the patch? /johnin
dmenu-4.0-xft.diff
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