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I would like to use the inconsolata font in dwm's statusbar. Right now my config.h is set up like so using terminus:

static const char font[] = "-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";

I tried changing that to:

static const char font[] = "-*-inconsolata-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";

But it didn't work. I currently have inconsolata working in urxvt by setting the following line in .Xdefaults:

URxvt.font: xft:inconsolata:size=10

So, I believe the best bet would be to just patch Xft support into dwm, but I can't seem to find a patch anywhere and I'm not sure how to do it myself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am currently using dwm 5.8.2.

(At the time of this writing I didn't have enough points to create new tags so I just went with X11 and fonts, please feel free to modify).

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There is a (reasonably old) thread on the suckless mailing list about this issue, that includes a patch: called pango.

There is slightly more recent version in the AUR for 5.8.2:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33193

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  • if I download the package from the AUR and then modify config.h and run makepkg, I get an error that config.h didn't pass the validity test and won't install. – J.C. Yamokoski Jul 2 '11 at 21:23
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    I didn't realize you were running Arch. Download the tarball, extract and cd in. Then run makepkg. Once the package is built, edit config.h and then makepg -efi. – jasonwryan Jul 2 '11 at 21:52
  • You have to edit the PKGBUILD and remove anything between md5sums=().You can also do makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD but then the PKGBUILD will get cluttered. – bollovan Jul 3 '11 at 9:22
  • @jasonwryan, I suppose I should have mentioned that I am using Arch... thanks for your answers, worked like a charm. – J.C. Yamokoski Jul 4 '11 at 13:20

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