Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-20 Thread Eckehard Berns
Thanks Bryan, your icons work, but only in my terminal not xterm when I choose Tamsyn2 font and echo -e \xC1, however when I edited your font with my gbdfed, saved, reconverted, and put it into /usr/share/fonts/local/, ran my terminal and echo -e \xA1(my added icon) didn't show up, but

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-20 Thread Bryan Bennett
That font encoding is pretty arbitrary - I chose the encoding that Tamsyn already carried. I don't require too much more than ASCII due to my locale (en_US), so I stuck with en_US.ISO8859-1. If you needed to, you could copy the glyphs over into another font, say Terminus, that has better support

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread Le Tian
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Andrew Hills hills...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: This method seems pretty nice, but somehow I still can't make my modified font icons work, I made an icon under 0045 index, that replaced E letter,

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread Le Tian
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: yay. this windings approach looks cool. Can you explain in a wiki/web the steps to create such font file, and how to do your setup? i will probably not use it.. but i think it can be useful for things like swk or dzen. at

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Thu 19 May 2011 12:07:54 PM PDT, Le Tian wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, pancake wrote: this windings approach looks cool. Can you explain in a wiki/web the steps to create such font file, and how to do your setup? here is a link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92895

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread hiro
And please tell the mailing list if you have any other problem whatsoever :D (Not that I'm innocent) On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 18:15, Suraj N. Kurapati sun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu 19 May 2011 12:07:54 PM PDT, Le Tian wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, pancake wrote: this windings

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-19 Thread Bryan Bennett
I've done this previously (I have modified Tamsyn's 15pt version and released it on the arch forums as 'Tamsyn2') and it works very well - particularly in locales where you rarely use anything outside of the ASCII charset. The basic idea is this - find a font you like and change the characters you

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-18 Thread Le Tian
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 20:45:17 +0300 Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: Recently I've bumped into a thread with a nice solution to takbar icons in dwm via editing any pcf font. So I converted pcf to bdf and with

Re: [dev] dwm taskbar icons via pcf font

2011-05-18 Thread Andrew Hills
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Le Tian tiane...@gmail.com wrote: This method seems pretty nice, but somehow I still can't make my modified font icons work, I made an icon under 0045 index, that replaced E letter, but after setting the font in xterm via setfont