[solved]cannot load font dzen2

Question

hello. I was able to apply space for a bottom gap for DWM. I am trying to get dzen2 and conky to show up at the bottom. I have conky-cli installed as well.
error: dzen: error, cannot load font: '-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
here is my $HOME/.bin/dzconky (i did chmod a+x it)
#! /bin/sh
FG='#aaaaaa'
BG='#1a1a1a'
FONT='-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
conky | dzen2 -e '' -ta c -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT -x 0 -y 1008
also will this work to load dzen2 at startup?
this is in my xinitrc
#dzconky
sh /home/hei/.bin/dzconky&
Last edited by cirnOS (2011-09-10 23:26:31)

Answer 1

karol wrote:
Do you have that font? maybe you need to run
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local
for all the apps to see it.
Ah that worked. However now it seems the dzen bar appears on the top where my DWM bar is.
edit: here is my conkyrc in case that helps, it appears changing the x and y doesn't change much.
background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
# colors
default_color eab93d
own_window_colour 000000
#background yes
#update_interval 2
#use_spacer none
TEXT
^fg(\#1863b9)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/info_01.xbm)
^fg(\#b9b9b9)${uptime_short} ^fg(\#cc880a)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/cpu.xbm) ^fg(\#b9b9b9)CPU=${cpu cpu0}% ^fg(\#cc880a)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/usb.xbm) ^fg(\#b9b9b9)${fs_free /}${color} ^fg(\#cc880a)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/usb.xbm) ^fg(\#b9b9b9)${fs_free /tmp} ^fg(\#cc880a)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/usb.xbm) ^fg(\#b9b9b9)${fs_free /home} ^fg(brown)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/net_down_03.xbm) ^fg(\#b9b9b9)${downspeed ppp0} ^fg(\#1863b9)^i(/home/hei/.dzen2/xbm8x8/net_up_03.xbm) ^fg(\#a5a5a5)${upspeed ppp0}
Last edited by cirnOS (2011-09-10 20:15:15)