xlsfonts

NAME

xlsfonts - server font list displayer for X

SYNOPSIS

xlsfonts [-options ...] [-fn pattern]

DESCRIPTION

The xlsfonts(1) utility lists the fonts that match the given pattern. The wildcard character "*" can 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.

OPTIONS

-display host:dpy

This option specifies the X server to contact.
-l[l[l]]
Generate medium, long, and very long listings, respectively, for each font.
-m
Long listings should also print the minimum and maximum bounds of each font.
-C
Use multiple columns. This is the same as -n.
-1
Use a single column for listings. This is the same as -n 1.
-w width
Use width characters to determine how many columns to print. The default is 79.
-n columns
Use columns columns when 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
Leave the output unsorted.
-o
Do an OpenFont (and QueryFont, if appropriate) rather than a ListFonts. This is useful if either ListFonts or ListFontsWithInfo fails to list a known font (as is the case with some scaled font systems).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

DISPLAY
Contains the default host and display to use.

BUGS

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

Copyright 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

See X(5) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHOR

Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena; Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium; Phil Karlton, SGI

SEE ALSO

X(5)

xset(1)

xfd(1)

Xserver