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I found references at various places running dmenu like so :

dmenu_run -b -fn 'Inconsolata 12'

However, whatever variation of the font name I try, I always get dmenu: warning: cannot load font <font name>

fc-list | grep cons gives me:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/inconsolata/Inconsolata.otf: Inconsolata:style=Medium

It does not show in xlsfonts and all the fonts that do show up with xlsfonts work fine.

What is the correct way to reference these fonts from command line ?

Also, is that a standard way to reference fonts or will it change when using programs like pango?

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answered 1 Year ago landarre · Accepted Answer

The standard version of dmenu doesn't include support for xft fonts. To use fonts like Inconsolata you'll need to build a patched version of dmenu.

Open up a terminal, cd to the directory containing both the source code and the patch.

Run the following commands to apply the patch:

tar zxvf dmenu-4.5.tar.gz

cd dmenu-4.5

mv ../dmenu-4.5-xft.diff .

patch -p1 < dmenu-4.5-xft.diff

To build the modified version of dmenu, you'll need to have the following packages installed: libxft-dev libxft2 libxinerama-dev