From: W. Trevor King Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:50:40 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Add `xset q` section to Fonts post and strip trailing whitespace. X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e09851a39fb8cd3d3a090f116e83c607e8fd665;p=blog.git Add `xset q` section to Fonts post and strip trailing whitespace. --- diff --git a/posts/Fonts.mdwn b/posts/Fonts.mdwn index 94bc449..7fcc914 100644 --- a/posts/Fonts.mdwn +++ b/posts/Fonts.mdwn @@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ up by X. You can use `fc-list` to list fonts that X can find. Shalom:style=Stick … +You can use `xset` to query the font path for your current X server. + + $ xset q + … + Font Path: + /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins + … + I use [gucharmap][] to browse fonts and select unicode characters that I haven't yet bound to the keyboard via [[Xmodmap]] or [[XCompose|Compose_key]]. There are a number of nice fonts over at @@ -39,7 +47,7 @@ Authoring fonts =============== The main open source tool seems to be [FontForge][]. - + Further reading ===============