Re: X application font

From: Richard L. Hamilton (Richard.L.Hamilton_at_mindwarp.smart.net)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 21:00:24 -0000

In article <c7e59r$23v3$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
        Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes:
> "Jacob Jensen" <jacob_news_dkNoSpaaaammmm@yahoo.co.uk> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
>|Moreover, how can I find out which fonts are supported on the Solaris
>|platform? Not necessarily on my Solaris, but in general. Which fonts are
>|always guaranteed to be avaliable?
>
> There are no fonts guaranteed to always be available in X - it depends
> on which X server you display on. If you want to make sure the Solaris
> fonts are always available, you could try adding the Solaris X font
> server to your path (see the xset and xfs man pages), but that may still
> have mixed results depending on the X server.

I thought that "fixed" and "cursor" were pretty much universal (perhaps
along with some of the others that have been in X distros for a long time). 

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