Quickswitch.py font is tiny
Using quickswitch.py 2.0 with i3 and dmenu, it works just fine but the font is tiny. Any way to enlarge it?
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You need to tell dmenu which font to use, which goes with the -fn-switch. dmenu normally accepts only the core X fonts. There is a patch that allows you to Xft-fonts, but you might need to apply the patch yourself and compile dmenu.
If you are not having Xft support, this is what the result could look like:
echo 'test1\ntest2' | dmenu -fn '-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-22-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
The most easy way to get such a funny font string is by using xfontsel.
I have not toyed with quickswitch.py myself, but from a first glance, you should add the -fn <funny string> in the default part of the following line:
parser.add_argument('-d', '--dmenu', default='dmenu -b -i -l 20', help='dmenu command, executed within a shell')
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I got it to work. For the record, I changed the line
parser.add_argument('-d', '--dmenu', default='dmenu -b -i -l 20', help='dmenu command, executed within a shell')
to
parser.add_argument('-d', '--dmenu', default='dmenu -b -i -l 20 -fn --terminus-----20-------', help='dmenu command, executed within a shell')
Thanks for your help!
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Asked: 2013-12-11 17:29:04 +0000
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Last updated: Dec 11 '13
