XClock -font option syntax

[TonyGroves]

I'm trying to construct a command to display a digital XClock using a specific font, but I can't figure out the syntax of the -font argument.

Among other things, I've tried:
[tt] xclock -d -strftime "%a %d %b %H:%M" -font
"-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" &[/tt]
but I get the error "Cannot convert string ... to type FontStruct".

Can anybody tell me the syntax I should be using?
Thanks.

 

[TonyGroves]

Solved the syntax error problem. The font string should have been:
[tt] "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"[/tt]

However, the font setting seems to be ignored in favour of the default font. Has anyone out there got XClock working with a non-default font?

Thanks.

 

[TonyGroves]

Relax; I wrote a little Perl script to do the same thing.

 

[flugh]

How about this (from xclock man page):
[tt]
font (class Font)
Specifies the font to be used for the digital clock. Note that
variable width fonts currently will not always display cor-
rectly. This font is only used when Xrender is not in effect.
[/tt]
I don't know about the Xrender part exactly, but maybe it's that or the variable-width font causing a problem? Have you tried any other fonts with success?

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JBR

 

[TonyGroves]

I tried fixed-width fonts as well, and they didn't work either. In any event, the Perl script works fine. Here it is:
[tt]
use Tk;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
sub gettime{$d=strftime "%a %d %b\n%H:%M",localtime};
gettime;
$w=MainWindow->new;
$w->repeat(60000,\&gettime);
$w
->Label(-textvariable=>\$d,-anchor=>center)
->place(-relheight=>1,-relwidth=>1);
MainLoop;
[/tt]