the reason xfontsel and xlsfonts aren't that usefull anymore is because of Xft, and fontconfig, of which you should read all the manuals for. there are ways to use xlfd definitions with Xft though. and you can change which mono font you pick up with fontconfig too.
--Carlos On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015, at 03:50 PM, Samuel Holland wrote: >> fc-match mono > > That works. Thank you so much. I am familiar with the old commands > xlsfonts and xfontsel, which, apparently, aren't relevant anymore. I > guess X does fonts differently, not like when I learned the old commands > years ago. > > In case anyone is curious, the answer I got was: > ~> fc-match mono > DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow > >