Openbox fonts

RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

Hey-

No matter what I do, I don't seem to be able to change the fonts in openbox. Even the default selection styles all have the same fonts.
What am I missing?

curtis119 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject:

find the style file for that theme, usually in /usr/share/commonbox/styles

If there is not a font entry then you can add one:

to use X fonts try...
*Font: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*

for XFT fonts try:
*xft.font: Verdana
*xft.size: 8
menu.*.xft.size: 10

you can also set this globally in all themes by adding these commands to your rc file ~/.openbox/rc file.

or you can just use stylebox which is a nifty little style editor that can be found here(it's not in Portage):
http://katanalynx.dyndns.org/~ajar/code/#stylebox

or use bbconf (which is in Portage). Just make sure to make this link:
ln -s ~/.openbox/rc ~/.blackboxrc
The only draw back to this option is that Openbox and Blackbox will share the same rc file if you use them both.
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RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

Okay- I still have trouble.
I have disabled styles and my only goal is to change the font on the rc file.
My rc file

curtis119 · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject:

Sorry that didn't work. I got that information from the openbox documentation. Apparently this is for older versions of Xfree or something. Anyway, I looked into it further and found that openbox follows the blackbox standard for fonts so try this instead.

Add the following entries in your style file:
/usr/share/commonbox/styles/name_of_style. I have only listed the relevant font parts:

toolbar.font: -*-clean-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
menu.frame.font: -*-clean-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
menu.title.font: -*-clean-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
window.label.focus.font: -*-clean-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
window.font: -*-clean-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

I tried this in my ~/.blackboxrc file and it overrides all the style files.
You should be able to put these entries in your ~/.openbox/rc file in order to override all the individual style settings.
All the fonts that work with blackbox/openbox can be seen with the program "xfontsel". It works perfect on blackbox.
I hope this is the CORRECT answer this time.
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RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

Hey Curtis,
Thanks a lot for your help.

I now managed to get it working.
I got confused with xfontsel, I didnt know you could actually use that long output line in a style file.
I found bbconf to be a nice tool, exept that its a bit buggy when it comes to fonts. I tried to select fonts in that prog but they didnt work.
The most important is that its working and I know how.

Keep cool.

curtis119 · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 11:11 pm Post subject:

cool, glad I could help. Even if it took a few tries.
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