new font-switcher Perl extension

Adam Spiers rxvt-unicode at adamspiers.org
Sun Jan 25 11:59:10 CET 2009


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 06:45:12PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:25:45PM +0000, Adam Spiers <rxvt-unicode at adamspiers.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I guess you'd need a separate, parallel resource:
> > 
> >      URxvt.font-switcher-bold-list
> > 
> > where if the nth item of URxvt.font-switcher-list is selected for
> > normal text, the nth item of URxvt.font-switcher-bold-list would be
> > used for bold text.  Or is there a cleaner way?  Another possibility
> > would be to "rotate" the matrix of fonts, e.g.
> 
> This is basically why there is no font resizing currently in urxvt - the
> problem of munching fonts (many power users, the main clientele of urxvt,
> have very custom font lists),

Sounds familiar ;-)

> and I don't have the slightest idea of how to fix that, except by
> custom lists, which are annoying, for 4 different font styles.

I use intensityStyles, so it doesn't really bother me.  If it bothers
someone else enough, hopefully they'll send a patch :-)




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