XLSFONTS(1) X Version 11 (Release 6.6) XLSFONTS(1)
NAME
xlsfonts - server font list displayer for X
SYNOPSIS
xlsfonts [-options ...] [-fn pattern]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
-display host:dpy
This option specifies the X server to contact.
-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
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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.
SEE ALSO
X(1), Xserver(1), xset(1), xfd(1), X Logical Font
Description Conventions
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get 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.
AUTHOR
Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena; Jim Fulton, MIT X
Consortium; Phil Karlton, SGI
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