Changing fonts

Listing X server fonts with xlsfonts

To display fonts that are available from the X server, enter the following command at the prompt in a scoterm window:

xlsfonts | more

This command is described in greater detail in the following section.

Running xlsfonts

When you run the xlsfonts client, you get a listing of the fonts that are available from the X server. Note that the xlsfonts client can only list fonts that are located in directories specified in the font search path. If you have font directories on your system that are not included in the font search path, the fonts located in those directories are not displayed.

Because there are so many available fonts, even if you only have the default fonts on your system, you should use a paging command such as more or pg when you run xlsfonts.

The xlsfonts client lists each font by its complete font name. For example, you might see output such as:

   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--11-80-100-100-m-60-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--25-180-100-100-m-150-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--34-240-100-100-m-200-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--8-80-75-75-m-50-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
   -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--11-80-100-100-m-60-iso8859-1
   --More--