How to specify a larger font for an application?

Walter Harms wharms at bfs.de
Mon May 14 17:37:14 UTC 2018



> Leslie Turriff <jlturriff at mail.com> 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,
 wh


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