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xfontsel(1X)							  xfontsel(1X)

NAME
       xfontsel - point & click interface for selecting X11 font names

SYNOPSIS
       xfontsel	 [-toolkitoption...]  [-pattern	 fontname]  [-print]  [-sample
       text] [-sample16 text16] [-noscaled]

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;	 for  example,
       -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  but‐
       ton.

       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 -noscaled option disables the ability to  select  scaled  fonts  at
       arbitrary pixel or point sizes.	This makes it clear which bitmap sizes
       are advertised by the server, and can avoid an accidental and sometimes
       prolonged wait for a font to be scaled.

INTERACTIONS
       Clicking	 any pointer button in one of the XLFD field names will pop up
       a menu of the currently-known possibilities for that field.  If	previ‐
       ous  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	 omit‐
       ted from the menu entirely as a configuration option; see the ShowUnse‐
       lectable resource, below. Whenever any change is made to a field value,
       xfontsel	 will  assert  ownership of the PRIMARY_FONT selection.	 Other
       applications (see,  for	example,  xterm(1X))  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 particu‐
       lar  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 PRI‐
       MARY_FONT selection.

RESOURCES
       The application class is XFontSel.  Most of the user-interface is  con‐
       figured	in  the	 app-defaults  file; if this file is missing a warning
       message will be printed to standard output  and	the  resulting	window
       will be nearly incomprehensible.

       Most of the significant parts of the widget hierarchy are documented in
       the app-defaults file (normally	<XRoot>/lib/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel,
       where <XRoot> refers to the root of the X11 install tree.)

       Application  specific  resources: Specifies the cursor for the applica‐
       tion window.  Specifies the font name pattern for selecting a subset of
       available  fonts.   Equivalent to the -pattern option. Most useful pat‐
       terns will contain at least one field delimiter; for  example,  “*-m-*”
       for  monospaced	fonts.	 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.	 Spec‐
       ifies 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.   If  True the currently selected font name is printed to standard
       output when the quit button is  activated.  Equivalent  to  the	-print
       option.	 The  sample  1-byte  text  to use for linearly indexed fonts.
       Each glyph index is a single byte, with newline separating lines.   The
       sample 2-byte text to use for matrix-encoded fonts. Each glyph index is
       two bytes, with a 1-byte newline separating lines.  If True then selec‐
       tion of arbitrary pixel and point sizes for scalable fonts is enabled.

       Widget  specific	 resources: Specifies, for each field menu, whether or
       not to show values that are not currently selectable, based upon previ‐
       ous  field  selections.	If  shown, the unselectable 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.showUn‐
       selectable, class MenuButton.SimpleMenu.Options.ShowUnselectable; 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  rea‐
       sonable thing to specify in a resource file.

FILES
       $XFILESEARCHPATH/XFontSel

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 other‐
       wise nothing bad (or good) happens.

       The average-width menu is too large to be useful.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1989, 1991,  X Consortium

       See X(1X) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

SEE ALSO
       xrdb(1X), xfd(1X)

AUTHOR
       Ralph R. Swick, Digital Equipment Corporation/MIT Project Athena

								  xfontsel(1X)
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