How do I apply a patch?

mr_bones · 03-19-2020, 07:42 PM

I'm using dwm in 18.04, and I have a simple xsetroot loop in my .xinitrc that gets weather from wttr.in that sends a unicode color emoji. "fonts-noto-color-emoji" doesn't work in dwm, but I found a patch for libxft that fixes it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/...rge_requests/1

I've downloaded the libxft sources with:

Code:

apt-get source libxft-dev

I know about the "patch" command, but I don't know exactly what to download or how to apply it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

btw, here's my .xinitrc if anyone is interested

Code:

while xsetroot -name "`iostat -c | awk '(NR == 4) {print $1}'`% | `free -h | awk '(NR == 2) {print $3}'` / `free -h | awk '(NR == 2) {print $2}'` | `cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity`% `cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status` | `curl -s wttr.in/Denver?format=1` | `date`"
do
  sleep 1
done &
exec dwm

mr_bones · 03-20-2020, 06:39 PM

OK, i found the raw diff here since I submitted this thread for approval: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/...8d9ec47fc.diff

It patches 4 files. Not sure if I feed it to "patch" as-is, but I see an option in the man page for a dry run, so I will give it a try later when I am not drinking.

jefro · 03-20-2020, 07:36 PM

Sorry, I didn't really have an idea other than the instructions at github.

mr_bones · 03-21-2020, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

Sorry, I didn't really have an idea other than the instructions at github.

No worries. Thanks for letting me ask here (although I'm a bit embarrassed to do so - I've done this before, I swear :P). I'm just finishing up the bottle I started last night, so I will get back to this later, but I will post up the complete procedure when I'm done. This is too much work just to get color icons on my status bar, though. I'm hoping that maybe a few other people here will test out this patch and we can KINDLY get the attention of the xft devs so they consider merging it. I have zero connections to whomever wrote the patch, btw.

mr_bones · 03-28-2020, 04:21 PM

OK, I finally got back around to this, and it was easy enough to apply the patch:

Code:

patch -p1 < 7808631e7a9a605d5fe7a1077129c658d9ec47fc.diff

I don't have dwm working with color emoji yet, but that's a different story. Thanks!