Funny font story

[dkeg]

Well wasn't funny really til I figured it out. Happened while setting up the different outputs explained below for a scrot. I happened to notice something I have been overlooking.

Since I wrote all this up, first in support, I figured why not still post, but elsewhere. Let's keep the timeline intact.

Hi all.
fontA = font in question

So today, out of nowhere, I lost my font! I switched from fontA to fontB. No reason other than for the sake of changing it. At some point in the next little bit, I went to switch back. Merged xresources, attempted to open a new terminal, and nothing. Switched to tty1 to see the error which was the typical

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urxvt unable to load base fontset .... blah". WFT

So checked

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xlsfonts|grep fontA

and it was there. So even though nothing happened in between the font changing, no upgrade, nothing new, no other issues, I double checked syntax.

Then I took the same font string from xresource file to append to with -fn

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urxvt -fn fontA

And that works. Also is everything else works fine, such as notifications, dmenu, and lemonbar which is getting the font from xresouces. Essentially, it works everywhere except in urxvt unless I specify in -fn.

Even

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xrdb -query all

as expected, provides fontA.

Did the font.pcf get corrupted somehow? I replaced it with the same from my github, and still the same.

Reminder, this font was working like minutes before and still does everywhere its used automatically, and manually in urxvt.

Even blew away the whole directory and recreated, still nothing.

Also did a

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall rxvt-unicode-256color

Yeah, I'm baffled too.

I've done everything I know to do with fc-cache, xset +fp, blah, blah, blah.

So in the meantime I have changed my config.h for 2bwm to

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"urxvt", "-fn", "fontA" ...

and that of course works fine. Very strange indeed.

Not even sure what else could be tried. But i thought I'd throw it out there, if nothing else, but for an interesting topic.

Back to the present.

This is the font as should be

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-spectrum-berry-medium-r-normal-sans-11-80-75-75-m-50-iso10646-1

Okay, so what I was missing was

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>  xrdb -query all|grep font
*font: -spectrum-berry-medium-r-normal-sans-11-80-75-75-#796a70-50-iso10646-1

Notice anything??

And in my included colorfile, as I use the define method, In making a change I made mag just m, so as to not get sourced. So I had

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#define m #796a70

isn't that a fuckme in the hole miss. I thought you all would get a kick out of that.

[machinebacon]

m got replaced with #colorcode, not bad :D

[wuxmedia]

Nice.
funny how some of these stories one can't really shared outside of certain circles.
"Hey honey, you'll never guess what I just did..."

[machinebacon]

^ Hahaha, yes!

The thing with pasting shit into the wrong files happened to me quite often when using middle-mouse insert in an X session with some terminal editor. Note to self: cursor is not cursor.

[dkeg]

True. Definitely a highlight of the lowlights.

[Dr_Chroot]

Ah yes, my life from 14 til now is primarily a timeline of "oops/foot-in-mouth/that-was-dumb-of-me" moments. Like when I copy/pasted xft settings from the ArchWiki to my... xinitrc. Or when I accidentally deleted my .private directory on my encfs ecrypted home partition on BORK? That was stupid. And that was on Monday. Life is grand. Thankfully I rsynced all of my ~/audio and ~/videos to my USB on Friday, so I didn't loose too much, sans my dignity.

[dkeg]

Fuck ups are more fun with friends.