Fonts question

[Net Llama!]

Don't know about kvt specifically, but most other terminals generally 
let you set the font with some kind of switch (see the man page).

As for finding the fonts, and selecting them, try running xfontsel.

Joel Hammer wrote:
> I guess I am feeling my oats with fonts and am spoiling for a fight.
> 
> I would like to use something besides courier in my kvt terminal windows.
> There are a large number of available fonts in the options field, but only
> courier works. I ASSUME because it is a fixed width font.
> 
> But, you can download fonts from the internet which might be an improvement
> or at least fun.
> 
> I am trying to find out how kvt gets fonts. Using an unusual font,
> abberancy, I find the following:
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts     
> grep abber  --recursive * 
>   yields:
>    
> TrueType/Fontmap.larabie-fonts:(Abberancy)  (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/abberanc.ttf) ;
> TrueType/fonts.scale:abberanc.ttf -misc-Abberancy-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> TrueType/fonts.dir:abberanc.ttf -misc-Abberancy-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1             
> 
> This is good, because I think I know something about TrueType fonts. (Just a
> little, really!)
> 
> Anyway, my question is, what do the fonts.scale file and the fonts.dir file
> have in them? Do I need them if I install a new font? And if so, where are
> these arcane measurements found?


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