I was hoping to get a clock and date with a very fat white outline of the text that did not overwhelm the actual characters of the clock and date. So I had clock_filter as follows:
I was expecting a larger blobby white outline of each character, and the text of the date and time in front of that blobby white. But the strokes were also applied to the pink (#fe97b5) and purple (#948cd5) text.
Apparently, the next time the fill is specified, the stroke and strokewidth are left the same as they were last time.
If, however, I add -strokewidth '0' a couple times, I get the desired result. Like so:
I spent a long time figuring this out, and it might be helpful to the next person if they could assume that the strokewidth is zero each time a font is specified. If this is too much hassle to implement, it might be a useful tip to add to the documentation.
Variety 0.8.5, Raspberry Pi, GNOME
I was hoping to get a clock and date with a very fat white outline of the text that did not overwhelm the actual characters of the clock and date. So I had clock_filter as follows:
I was expecting a larger blobby white outline of each character, and the text of the date and time in front of that blobby white. But the strokes were also applied to the pink (#fe97b5) and purple (#948cd5) text. Apparently, the next time the fill is specified, the stroke and strokewidth are left the same as they were last time.
If, however, I add -strokewidth '0' a couple times, I get the desired result. Like so:
Here are the relevant lines from the log file. First the old clock_filter:
Now the new clock_filter with -strokewidth '0':
I spent a long time figuring this out, and it might be helpful to the next person if they could assume that the strokewidth is zero each time a font is specified. If this is too much hassle to implement, it might be a useful tip to add to the documentation.