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XFONTSEL(1) General Commands Manual XFONTSEL(1)
NAME
xfontsel - point and click selection of X11 font names
SYNTAX
xfontsel [-toolkitoption ...] [-pattern fontname] [-print] [-sample text] [-sample16
text16] [-sampleUCS textUCS] [-scaled]
DESCRIPTION
The xfontsel application provides a simple way to display the fonts known to your X
server, examine samples of each, and retrieve the X Logical Font Description ("XLFD") full
name for a font.
If -pattern is not specified, all fonts with XLFD 14-part names will be selectable. To
work with only a subset of the fonts, specify -pattern followed by a partially or fully
qualified font name; e.g., ``-pattern *medium*'' will select that subset of fonts which
contain the string ``medium'' somewhere in their font name. Be careful about escaping
wildcard characters in your shell.
If -print is specified on the command line the selected font specifier will be written to
standard output when the quit button is activated. Regardless of whether or not -print
was specified, the font specifier may be made the PRIMARY (text) selection by activating
the select button.
The -sample option specifies the sample text to be used to display the selected font if
the font is linearly indexed, overriding the default.
The -sample16 option specifies the sample text to be used to display the selected font if
the font is matrix encoded, overriding the default.
The -sampleUCS option specifies the sample text encoded in the UTF-8 form to be used to
display the selected font if the font has a CHARSET_REGISTRY of ISO10646, overriding the
default.
The -scaled option enables the ability to select scaled fonts at arbitrary pixel or point
sizes.
INTERACTIONS
Clicking any pointer button in one of the XLFD field names will pop up a menu of the cur‐
rently-known possibilities for that field. If previous choices of other fields were made,
only values for fonts which matched the previously selected fields will be selectable; to
make other values selectable, you must deselect some other field(s) by choosing the ``*''
entry in that field. Unselectable values may be omitted from the menu entirely as a con‐
figuration option; see the ShowUnselectable resource, below. Whenever any change is made
to a field value, xfontsel will assert ownership of the PRIMARY_FONT selection. Other
applications (see, e.g., xterm) may then retrieve the selected font specification.
Scalable fonts come back from the server with zero for the pixel size, point size, and
average width fields. Selecting a font name with a zero in these positions results in an
implementation-dependent size. Any pixel or point size can be selected to scale the font
to a particular size. Any average width can be selected to anamorphically scale the font
(although you may find this challenging given the size of the average width menu).
Clicking the left pointer button in the select widget will cause the currently selected
font name to become the PRIMARY text selection as well as the PRIMARY_FONT selection.
This then allows you to paste the string into other applications. The select button
remains highlighted to remind you of this fact, and de-highlights when some other applica‐
tion takes the PRIMARY selection away. The select widget is a toggle; pressing it when it
is highlighted will cause xfontsel to release the selection ownership and de-highlight the
widget. Activating the select widget twice is the only way to cause xfontsel to release
the PRIMARY_FONT selection.
RESOURCES
The application class is XFontSel. Most of the user-interface is configured in the app-
defaults file; if this file is missing a warning message will be printed to standard out‐
put and the resulting window will be nearly incomprehensible.
Most of the significant parts of the widget hierarchy are documented in /etc/X11/app-
defaults/XFontSel,
Application specific resources:
cursor (class Cursor)
Specifies the cursor for the application window.
pattern (class Pattern)
Specifies the font name pattern for selecting a subset of available fonts. Equiv‐
alent to the -pattern option. Most useful patterns will contain at least one
field delimiter; e.g. ``*-m-*'' for monospaced fonts.
pixelSizeList (class PixelSizeList)
Specifies a list of pixel sizes to add to the pixel size menu, so that scalable
fonts can be selected at those pixel sizes. The default pixelSizeList contains 7,
30, 40, 50, and 60.
pointSizeList (class PointSizeList)
Specifies a list of point sizes (in units of tenths of points) to add to the point
size menu, so that scalable fonts can be selected at those point sizes. The
default pointSizeList contains 250, 300, 350, and 400.
printOnQuit (class PrintOnQuit)
If True the currently selected font name is printed to standard output when the
quit button is activated. Equivalent to the -print option.
sampleText (class Text)
The sample 1-byte text to use for linearly indexed fonts. Each glyph index is a
single byte, with newline separating lines.
sampleText16 (class Text16)
The sample 2-byte text to use for matrix-encoded fonts. Each glyph index is two
bytes, with a 1-byte newline separating lines.
scaledFonts (class ScaledFonts)
If True then selection of arbitrary pixel and point sizes for scalable fonts is
enabled.
Widget specific resources:
showUnselectable (class ShowUnselectable)
Specifies, for each field menu, whether or not to show values that are not cur‐
rently selectable, based upon previous field selections. If shown, the unse‐
lectable values are clearly identified as such and do not highlight when the
pointer is moved down the menu. The full name of this resource is
fieldN.menu.options.showUnselectable, class MenuButton.SimpleMenu.Options.ShowUns‐
electable; where N is replaced with the field number (starting with the left-most
field numbered 0). The default is True for all but field 11 (average width of
characters in font) and False for field 11. If you never want to see unselectable
entries, '*menu.options.showUnselectable:False' is a reasonable thing to specify
in a resource file.
FILES
$XFILESEARCHPATH/XFontSel
SEE ALSO
xrdb(1), xfd(1)
BUGS
Sufficiently ambiguous patterns can be misinterpreted and lead to an initial selection
string which may not correspond to what the user intended and which may cause the initial
sample text output to fail to match the proffered string. Selecting any new field value
will correct the sample output, though possibly resulting in no matching font.
Should be able to return a FONT for the PRIMARY selection, not just a STRING.
Any change in a field value will cause xfontsel to assert ownership of the PRIMARY_FONT
selection. Perhaps this should be parameterized.
When running on a slow machine, it is possible for the user to request a field menu before
the font names have been completely parsed. An error message indicating a missing menu is
printed to stderr but otherwise nothing bad (or good) happens.
The average-width menu is too large to be useful.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1989, 1991, X Consortium
See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHOR
Ralph R. Swick, Digital Equipment Corporation/MIT Project Athena
Mark Leisher <mleisher AT crl.edu> added the support for the UTF-8 sample text.
X Version 11 xfontsel 1.0.5 XFONTSEL(1)
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