xlsfonts - server font list displayer for X
xlsfonts [-display host:dpy] [-l]
[-ll] [-lll] [-m] [-C] [-1] [-w
width] [-n columns] [-u] [-o] [-fn
pattern] [-v]
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.
- -d
host:dpy
- Same as -display host:dpy.
- -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.
- -v
- This option indicates that xlsfonts should print out the program version
and exit.
X(7), Xserver(1), xset(1), xfd(1), X
Logical Font Description Conventions
- DISPLAY
- DISPLAY must be set 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
Jim Fulton
Phil Karlton
Roland Mainz