On 08.10.19 08:54, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 02:38:27PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Anno domini 2019 Tue, 8 Oct 08:32:22 -0400 > > Hendrik Boom scripsit: > > > I ask because I'm having trouble choosing a font size in xterm. > > > > xfontsel > > OK. Just tried it. That was it. It looks pretty unusabe to present-day > UI sensibilities.
My UI sensibilities are the 99% command-line habits of an assembler programmer from the 1970s, and yet I find it unusable too. Not that I faff with fonts from one decade to the next, but this seems at least usefully functional: List what's there: $ fc-list | more # Or grep some constraint, perhaps. /usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidNaskh-Bold.ttf: Droid Sans:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/s050000l.pfb: Standard Symbols L:style=Regular /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Bold Oblique /usr/share/fonts/opentype/stix/STIXIntegralsUp-Bold.otf: STIXIntegralsUp:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/opentype/stix/STIXIntegralsUpD-Regular.otf: STIXIntegralsUpD:style=Regular /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf: DejaVu Serif:style=Bold Italic ... Display one: $ xfd -fa "Droid Sans:style=Bold" That whips up a window with 256 fontified characters, all in glorious black/white a la 1980s X11 on HPUX or Solaris. Hit "next" and it moves on to subsequent 256 character sets from the font, not all available. (The first 256 in "STIXIntegralsUp:style=Bold" are all blank.) It seems odd that some fancy GUI font selector thingy isn't more prominent, but I for one am content with the CLI, particularly when it doesn't change much from one century to the next. (Seriously) Erik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
