Re: HOW2 use different font with this app?

From	Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: HOW2 use different font with this app?
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.misc
Date	2011-07-06 12:08 -0400
Organization	PWN - Penguins With Nukes
Message-ID	<slrnj1923u.irt.bill@lat.localnet> (permalink)
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On 2011-07-04, no.top.post@gmail.com <no.top.post@gmail.com> wrote:
> For this app. which allows 'multiple terminals' on the same screen, and
> is mouse driven, I want to make the font smaller, to get more lines on
> a screen.     And the author writes:
>   "Wily is nicest to use with a proportional font.  Use wily -fn <fontname>
>   or use X defaults.  Wily.ad is my application defaults file, prop.9.font
>   and fixed.9.font are my two font files.  These refer to some fonts
>   distributed with 9term.  I would be _very_ happy if someone contributed
>   a full set of proportional Unicode fonts."
>
> So I though I'd start by looking at how HIS fonts 'are'.
>
> =>  ls -l *font ==
> -rw-r--r-- 1 81327 wheel 1937 2005-11-05 19:09 fixed.9.font
> -rw-r--r-- 1 81327 wheel 2001 2005-11-05 19:09 prop.9.font
>
> ==> NOW IN Slak13
> -> locate font | grep 9 == too many => see: /usr/share/fonts/
>
> -> try: wily -fn  /usr/share/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-6
>
> -> wily -fn prop.9.font == wily -fn fixed.9.font
>
> For the 3 <different fonts above> there was no change in the appearance.
>
> Changing the font used by an app. via a parameter, must be common.
> How is it normally done?
> Is the full path of the <font> given ?
>
> == TIA.
>
You can try using font names as given by xfontsel, but since wily is based
on the Plan 9 "acme" program, it might require font files in a special Plan 9
format.


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