jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) (10/05/89)
I've recently been given a chance to play with a Sun workstation (wow!) and need some advice on fonts. First, I found all the fonts in the /usr/lib/fixedwidthfonts, is there any way to display a sample of each font so I don't have to pick a font, exit suntools, re-enter suntools? I'd like to see them all together on the screen if I could. Second, we have 3 machines NFS'ed together. For 2 of them the default font is fine and dandy, for the third it's pretty small. I assume there is a table somewhere telling the system the default font. Where is the silly thing? The problem here is we have a case tool, on that third machine all text in it is pretty small. I'm hoping this case tool is using the default system font. I should mention the clock, mail, etc icons on this third machine are pretty small as well. Jim ucsd!sagpd1!jharkins
dan@dsi.COM (Dan Mick) (10/06/89)
In article <486@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes: >.../usr/lib/fixedwidthfonts, is there any way to display a sample of each >font so I don't have to pick a font, exit suntools, re-enter suntools? You can try a {cmd,shell}tool -Wt <fontfilename> and see a window with that font...cd to /usr/lib/fonts/fixedwidthfonts to save your fingers. >I assume there is a table somewhere telling >the system the default font. ~/.suntools or ~/.sunview has the default font; change it with defaultsedit once you're in sunview or suntools, or edit it by hand if you're one of those nuts'n'bolts-ers.
ben@nsf1.mth.msu.edu (Ben Lotto) (10/07/89)
On 6 Oct 89 00:42:06 GMT, dan@dsi.COM (Dan Mick) said: Dan> In article <486@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) Dan> writes: >I assume there is a table somewhere telling >the system the default font. Dan> ~/.suntools or ~/.sunview has the default font; change it with Dan> defaultsedit once you're in sunview or suntools, or edit it by hand Dan> if you're one of those nuts'n'bolts-ers. Actually, the file which tells the defaults for things is ~/.defaults and a line of the form /SunView/Font "/usr/lib/fonts/fixedwidthfonts/serif.r.16" will set the default font. It's probably better to change this using Defaults Editor. -- -B. A. Lotto (ben@nsf1.mth.msu.edu) Department of Mathematics/Michigan State University/East Lansing, MI 48824