From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12125 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2012 03:53:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 12114 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Mar 2012 03:53:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sam.nabble.com (HELO sam.nabble.com) (216.139.236.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:53:17 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S9Ten-0002dd-1J for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:53:17 -0700 Message-ID: <33529062.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:53:00 -0000 From: leoslists To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to display X fonts with a typographical font sample In-Reply-To: <2ACC1A78-4E36-451A-AAD8-7734045FD5FD@letterboxes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2ACC1A78-4E36-451A-AAD8-7734045FD5FD@letterboxes.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 leoslists wrote: > > I want to see the fonts which are installed on my X system. I tried > xlsfonts, but as a command line tool it only lists the *names* of the > fonts not a *font sample*. > > Hoe do I get a list of the fonts with some text written in that > particular font? is there an X program for this? > Now I can answer the question myself: %-) xfd and xfontsel display font typefaces at least individually. Didn't find a way yet to display a list of fonts in the typeface, but this is better than nothing Leo -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-display-X-fonts-with-a-typographical-font-sample-tp33500860p33529062.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/