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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
- Lists some attributes of the font on one line in addition to its name.
- -ll
- Lists font properties in addition to -l output.
- -lll
- Lists character metrics
in addition to -ll output.
- -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).
- -fn pattern
- This option
specifies the font name pattern to match.
X(7)
, Xserver(1)
, xset(1)
,
xfd(1)
, X Logical Font Description Conventions
- 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.
Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena;
Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium; Phil Karlton, SGI
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