XSetFont(3)

🌈 XSetFont 🌈

okay bestie, this is the XSetFont(3) page — literally the manual for the XSetFont function, and it's giving “GC convenience routines” energy ✨

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🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

int XSetFont(Display *display, GC gc, Font font);

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• display — Specifies the connection to the X server. iconic, necessary, we love her 🫶
• font — Specifies the font. yes bestie, the font itself 💅
• gc — Specifies the GC. that’s the graphics context, main character energy 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The XSetFont function sets the current font in the specified GC. periodt 💅

Heads up though: XSetFont can generate BadAlloc, BadFont, and BadGC errors. not me being dramatic, that’s just literally what the page says 😭

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🌸 DIAGNOSTICS 🌸

• BadAlloc — The server failed to allocate the requested resource or server memory. rough, ngl 💀
• BadFont — A value for a Font or GContext argument does not name a defined Font. so if the font isn’t actually a defined font, yeah, that’s a whole thing 🙈
• BadGC — A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GContext. same vibe check, but for the GC 💜

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, iykyk:

• XCreateGC(3)
• XQueryBestSize(3)
• XSetArcMode(3)
• XSetClipOrigin(3)
• XSetFillStyle(3)
• XSetLineAttributes(3)
• XSetState(3)
• XSetTile(3)
• Xlib - C Language X Interface

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signing off from X Version 11, libX11 1.8.14, on the XSetFont(3) page — mwah, slay, bye bestie 💋🎀💖