mysurface

Fluxbox unsolves bug.

Sunday, 18. March 2007, 05:44:23

I have play around a lots of fluxbox svn version over the weekend, and discover a bug on windows title, while display non-english characters while you login with en-UTF-8 locale.

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Observed that the windows title, it could not recognize the font and display correctly, even I overlay it with chinese font in ~/.fluxbox/overlay. But in gtk part of space, observe the tab, it do works to display properly.

Any Chinese fluxbox user facing the same problem?
Probably not if you login as a zh locale, what if you login to en locale and need the windows title to display properly? In gnome, they do not have such problem, in fluxbox they have, who can fix it? which developer should I email to?

i have install fluxbox 1.0rc3Fluxbox 1.0rc3 svn 4840, tabs in title bar

Comments

Anonymous # 18. March 2007, 10:38

Lihavim writes:

You can edit window font of your current style to an unicode font.

mysurface # 18. March 2007, 10:43

The better way to do it is to put at overlay under ~/.fluxbox

It will overrides all window font for every style. So I do that, and it fails to display correctly.

Anonymous # 19. March 2007, 09:08

chfl4gs_ writes:

Nothing to do with fluxbox. Not even a bug.. You need to get good TTF font installed. vera san yuanti is good on my fluxbox. refer to this page for simple installation instruction. setenv LC_CTYPE zh_CN.eucCN or export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.eucCN for extending support to console ..etc..

mysurface # 19. March 2007, 17:17

chfl4gs_:

Thanks, I have that install for long, after I put

window.font: Vera Sans YuanTi
toolbar.iconbar.focused.font: Vera Sans YuanTi
toolbar.iconbar.unfocused.font: Vera Sans YuanTi

into ~/.fluxbox/overlay it works for chinese page and japanese page, but not korean, I didn't try other languages.

In gnome, xft2 supports all languages font well without forcing any font to use. Maybe I shouldn't say its fluxbox bugs, I should say they do not fully support xft2 yet. But for time being I am quite happy with it. But I still believe there are something fluxbox's developer can do with it.

XFT is enabled when I do fluxbox -info.