You don't have to use terminus; it falls back to: -*-times-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* When it is unavailable.
I bet you didn't add terminus to the fontpath. Add this to your .xinitrc: /usr/X11R6/bin/xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/terminus On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:01:05PM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:39:33PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > > It's a fairly straightforward port, the only debatable thing is that it > > has a run dependency on dmenu, while it can function properly without > > it. > > Works, but WANTLIB needs a couple of other bits, see inline diff. > > I was wondering why terminus-font is needed. The font in the bar does > not appear to be terminus. > > Thanks > > > -- > > Best Regards > > Edd Barrett > (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) > > http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett > --- Makefile.orig Wed Jan 28 11:52:54 2009 > +++ Makefile Wed Jan 28 11:53:05 2009 > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ > MASTER_SITES= http://spootnik.org/scrotwm/ > > NO_REGRESS= Yes > -WANTLIB= c X11 > +WANTLIB= c X11 Xrandr util > > RUN_DEPENDS= :dmenu->=3.9:x11/dmenu \ > ::x11/terminus-font
