These commands are also useful (and much better than xlsfonts :)):
xfontsel
gfontsel (only if you have GNOME)
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 07:55 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To change the font of an X application (such as xterm and many others),
> I do the following:
> First choose a font from the list produced by xlsfonts (you can look at
> the man page), such as
> -adobe-new century
> schoolbook-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-136-iso8859-4
> Then I call the x application with the option -fn to specify the font,
> as in
> xterm -fn "-adobe-new century
> schoolbook-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-136-iso8859-4" &
> The hard part is finding a font that really looks good. For that, it
> can be helpful to first look at
> xfd -fn "-adobe-new century
> schoolbook-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-136-iso8859-4"
> which displays the whole font set.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jens
>
>
> On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 12:55 PM, sarah smith wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I don't know if this is off topic or not, but how can I change fonts
>> in X? I want to be able to use Verdana when I'm using Galeon, or
>> Mozilla.
>>
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