Hi Yantsen
with xfontsel you can even "see" what you are choosing... :)
bye!
jl
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Yatsen Ng wrote:
yatsen > Hi there,
yatsen >
yatsen > X Windows offers a program called xlsfonts, that provides a list of
yatsen > available fonts on your X Windows system. To see a list of available
yatsen > fonts on your system, use the following command in an xterm window:
yatsen >
yatsen > $ xlfonts | more (or $ xlfonts | less)
yatsen >
yatsen > The "| more" (or "| less") part of the command allows you to page
yatsen > through the long list of fonts by hitting the spacebar (or the page down
yatsen > button in case of "| less") to move forward a page.
yatsen >
yatsen > In order to choose a different (larger) font, you should use the command
yatsen > $ xterm -fn 10x20 &
yatsen >
yatsen > If you want to experimant with other fonts, use xlfonts to see a list of
yatsen > fonts, select a font and then use the xfd command to display the font in
yatsen > a window. For example, to display the Sony font
yatsen > "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal-24-230-75-75-c-120-iso8859-1", you should
yatsen > the command:
yatsen >
yatsen > $ xfd -fn -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal-24-230-75-75-c-120-iso8859-1
yatsen >
yatsen > The -fn flag specifies the font name.
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