NAME

xlsfonts − list available fonts. 

SYNTAX

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. 

If you use wildcard characters as or within a fontname specification, the name must be quoted to prevent the characters from being expanded by the shell.  See Chapter 6, Font Specification, for instructions on using xlsfonts. 

OPTIONS

xlsfonts accepts the following options:

-1Indicates that listings should use a single column.  This is the same as -n 1. 

-CIndicates that listings should use multiple columns.  This is the same as ­-n 0. 

-display [host]:server[.screen]
Allows you to specify the display, server, and screen to connect to. host is the hostname of the physical display, server specifies the server number, and screen specifies the screen number.  For example, % xlsfonts -display your_node:0.1 specifies screen 1 of server 0 on the display named by your_node.  Either or both the host and screen can be omitted.  If host is omitted, the local display is assumed.  If screen is omitted, screen 0 is assumed (and the period is unnecessary). 

-fn pattern
Indicates that only fonts matching the specified pattern be listed. 

-l[l[l]]Indicates that medium, long, and very long listings, respectively, should be generated for each font. 

-mIndicates that long listings should also print the minimum and maximum bounds of each font. 

-n columns
Specifies the number of columns to use in displaying the output.  By default, it will attempt to fit as many columns of font names as possible into the number of characters specified by -w width. 

-oSpecifies that xlsfonts should do an OpenFont (and QueryFont, if appropriate) rather than a ListFonts.  This is useful if ListFonts or ListFontsWithInfo fails to list a known font (as is the case with some scaled font systems).  (Available as of Release 5.) 

-uSpecifies that the output should be left unsorted.  (Available as of Release 5.) 

-w width
Specifies the width in characters that should be used in figuring out how many columns to print.  The default is 79.

SEE ALSO

X, Xserver, xset, xfd, xfontsel; Chapter 6, Font Specification. 

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.