[Xastir] font names?

[Alan Crosswell]

Sounds like a plan.
/a

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> 
> 
>>I just added this last week or the week before.  It's half-baked at
>>best.  Best way right now is to run xfontsel, choose your font, and then
>>click on Select, which puts the font name in your cut buffer,  Then go
>>to xastir, delete the old font entry and paste in the new name.  Not
>>elegant but it works for now.  I was hoping someone would point me at a
>>xfontsel-like widget that we could build in to the program but I guess
>>such a thing doesn't exist.
> 
> 
> "xfontsel" man page:
> 
>        If -print is specified on the command  line  the  selected
>        font specifier will be written to standard output when the
>        quit button is activated.
> 
> Good enough?  "xfontsel" is on most systems running X11, so I'd just
> go with the standard tool and parse the output.
> 
> It'd be nice if you could stuff the current font into xfontsel.
> Perhaps there's a way to do that as well.
>