Re: [vile] A question about fonts in xvile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Chris G wrote:

> Now that I'm using xvile mostly on modern Linux systems I'm wondering
> if I can use some better to look at fonts.
>
> What showed this up was the default gnome-terminal on Fedora 7 which
> uses the "system fixed width font" as its default font and I have to
> say it looks much better than what I'm using in xvile (and rxvt for
> that matter).
>
> So, is there anyy way I can get the saem selection of fonts in xvile
> that I see in gnome-terminal (and firefox, and other applications)?
> If so, how do I do it?

probably not - I expect they're using truetype fonts, which will require
a code-change to allow xvile to use them.  xterm does that...

> Which of the many directories with font files in does xvile choose its
> fonts from?  Then I can go and look in the fonts.dir file and see what
> I could select.  Also is there any way to get xvile to 'see' more of
> the system's available fonts?

It's using the bitmap fonts which are in your X server's fontpath.
The "xset" program is used to set/get the corresponding properties.

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