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Re: How to display X fonts with a typographical font sample
- From: leoslists <leoslists at letterboxes dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:53:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: How to display X fonts with a typographical font sample
- References: <2ACC1A78-4E36-451A-AAD8-7734045FD5FD@letterboxes.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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
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