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A fast desktop menu
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Can you change the font size? #133

Closed root2185 closed 2 years ago

root2185 commented 2 years ago

I also use dmenu and I'd like to have both the same size.

meator commented 2 years ago

j4-dmenu-desktop uses dmenu internally, so if your dmenu uses your desired fontsize by default, j4-dmenu-desktop will too. If you want to override dmenu defaults, you can do:

j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu "dmenu -fn <font description>"

The <font description> can be any font name accepted by fontconfig (i.e. the thing you put here). You can find more info on how to specify font name in https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html (specifically in sections Font Names and Font Properties). You should also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration.

root2185 commented 2 years ago

I changed dwm top bar not dmenu, right.

root2185 commented 1 year ago

I can change dmenu font with: dmenu_run -fn "FuraMono Nerd Font:size=11.5".

But it doesn't work for j4-dmenu-desktop. It is always the same, e.g. with j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu "dmenu -fn "FuraMono Nerd Font:size=46"".

meator commented 1 year ago

This isn't a problem with j4-dmenu-desktop. Your command is incorrectly quoted. When you have text enclosed in quotation marks which is also enclosed in quotation marks, you have to distinguish the inner and outer "s.

Your quoted string are this

"dmenu -fn "

and this

""

which presumably isn't what You intended.

You can use

j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu 'dmenu -fn "FuraMono Nerd Font:size=46"'

or

j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu "dmenu -fn \"FuraMono Nerd Font:size=46\""

to distinguish the quotation marks. There are many ways to do this, look up your shell's documentation for more information (this technique is called shell quoting).