[mdlug] xterm question

Raymond McLaughlin driveray at ameritech.net
Thu Oct 9 14:02:00 EDT 2008


Jeff Kneale wrote:
> X11 font names have their own, distinct naming conventions, like:
> 
> *-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*
> *-courier-bold-o-*-*-*-140-*
> 
> See http://web.mit.edu/answers/xwindows/xwindows_fonts.html for more info.


Yes! Thank you. The information on that web site has started me getting 
some traction on this. I can use the command "xlsfonts" to find out what 
fonts are available. And the page seems to list a couple of other 
commands that might be useful. Thanks.



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