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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Semi-OT: font advice
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:35:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4087F446.3030005@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c68mlu$eta$1@panix2.panix.com

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
 > The font I have in my terminal window isn't bad, but I don't know
 > what it is in terms of the "-*-*-" form--I'm running Gnome, and
 > it's chosen from a menu as being in the "Monospace" family, regular,
 > 11 pt.
 >
 > I guess my biggest problem is that I don't know how to browse the
 > fonts on my system from within Emacs in a way that shows me what
 > they really look like and what their formal names are. I've read
 > through the Wiki and other places and don't really know what to
 > try next. Any advice, either for a specific font or for ways to
 > better browse what I have? I'm happy to install any fonts on my
 > system.

Instead of browsing within Emacs, use the xfontsel utility.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-22 15:00 Semi-OT: font advice Jesse Sheidlower
2004-04-22 15:58 ` Cor Gest
2004-04-22 16:35 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-04-22 16:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-22 17:45   ` Jesse Sheidlower
2004-04-26  1:49   ` Jesse Sheidlower
2004-04-26 17:47     ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-27 19:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-27 20:50       ` Jesse Sheidlower
2004-04-28  6:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-23  3:28 ` Tim X
2004-04-23 14:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-04-23 14:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-04-23 16:11 ` giacomo boffi
2004-04-26  1:51   ` Jesse Sheidlower
2004-04-26  9:18     ` giacomo boffi
2004-04-24 21:14 ` Kai Grossjohann

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