Re: How to specify a larger font for an application?

[Walter Harms]

> Leslie Turriff  hat am 11. Mai 2018 um 10:06 geschrieben:
> 
> 
>   I normally use the X2 text editor for most of my file editing, but 
> although 
> it is an excellent editor, its default font is too small for me to read 
> easily, so I'm looking for a way to change that.
>   The editor has a configuration file with a parameter that looks like 
> this:
> 
>   xwindows_font:  fixed
> 
> but I haven't figured out what the possibilities are for valid font 
> descriptions to replace "fixed".
> __

you can try:

xlsfonts | more

If X2 text editor is a propper X11 apllication you can test:

X2 -fn "my-lovely-font"

see also: xfontsel

re,
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Re: How to specify a larger font for an application?

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 03:06 -0500, Leslie Turriff wrote:
>   I normally use the X2 text editor for most of my file editing, but 
> although 
> it is an excellent editor, its default font is too small for me to read 
> easily, so I'm looking for a way to change that.
>   The editor has a configuration file with a parameter that looks like 
> this:
> 
>   xwindows_font:  fixed
> 
> but I haven't figured out what the possibilities are for valid font 
> descriptions to replace "fixed".

"fixed" is an alias for "6x13", which is itself an alias for something 
like "-misc-fixes-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". You can get a
complete list of the fonts available to your X server by running
xlsfonts(1), or you can use the xfontsel(1) utility to select one
interactively. The dropdown boxes in xfontsel map directly to the XLFD
fields:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_logical_font_description

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How to specify a larger font for an application?

[Leslie Turriff]

I normally use the X2 text editor for most of my file editing, but 
although 
it is an excellent editor, its default font is too small for me to read 
easily, so I'm looking for a way to change that.
The editor has a configuration file with a parameter that looks like 
this:

xwindows_font:  fixed

but I haven't figured out what the possibilities are for valid font 
descriptions to replace "fixed".
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