X11R6

NAME

xlsfonts − server font list displayer for X

SYNOPSIS

xlsfonts [−options...] [−fn pattern]

OPTIONS

−display host:dpy
This option specifies the X server to contact.

−lLists some attributes of the font on one line in addition to its name. 

−llLists font properties in addition to −l output. 

−lllLists character metrics in addition to −ll output. 

−mThis option indicates that long listings should also print the minimum and maximum bounds of each font. 

−CThis option indicates that listings should use multiple columns.  This is the same as −n 0. 

−1This 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. 

−uThis option indicates that the output should be left unsorted. 

−oThis 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.

DESCRIPTION

The xlsfonts command 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. 

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. 

SEE ALSO

X(1X), Xserver(1X), xset(1X), xfd(1X)

AUTHOR

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