xlsfonts(1) manual page
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xlsfonts - server font list displayer for X
xlsfonts [-options
...] [-fn pattern]
Xlsfonts lists the fonts that match the given
pattern. The wildcard character "*" may be used to match any sequence of
characters (including none), and "?" to match any single character. If no
pattern is given, "*" is assumed.
The "*" and "?" characters must be quoted
to prevent them from being expanded by the shell.
- -display host:dpy
- This option specifies the X server to contact.
- -l[l[l]]
- This option indicates
that medium, long, and very long listings, respectively, should be generated
for each font.
- -m
- This option indicates that long listings should also print
the minimum and maximum bounds of each font.
- -C
- This option indicates that
listings should use multiple columns. This is the same as -n 0.
- -1
- This option
indicates that listings should use a single column. This is the same as
-n 1.
- -w width
- This option specifies the width in characters that should be
used in figuring out how many columns to print. The default is 79.
- -n columns
- This option specifies the number of columns to use in displaying the output.
By default, it will attempt to fit as many columns of font names into the
number of character specified by -w width.
- -u
- This option indicates that
the output should be left unsorted.
- -o
- This option indicates that xlsfonts
should do an OpenFont (and QueryFont, if appropriate) rather than a ListFonts.
This is useful if ListFonts or ListFontsWithInfo fail to list a known
font (as is the case with some scaled font systems).
X11(7)
, Xserver(1)
,
xset(1)
, xfd(1)
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display
to use.
Doing ‘‘xlsfonts -l’’ can tie up your server for a very long time.
This is really a bug with single-threaded non-preemptable servers, not with
this program.
Copyright 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X11(7)
for a full statement of rights and permissions.
Mark Lillibridge,
MIT Project Athena; Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium; Phil Karlton, SGI
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