[comp.windows.x] enhancement/wrapper script for font selection

lwv27@CAS.BITNET (Larry W. Virden ext. 2487) (06/11/91)

I have seen the xfontsel program and have found it to be pretty nice.

But the output is not very easy for a novice/naive user to deal with.

What I would like to find is some way to take the output from this program
and return to the user a simple name from the first font alias file
found in the font path variable.

What I do not know is whether it would be as simple as taking the output
selected from xfontsel, writing it to a file, then doing a loop thru
the font path variable, fgrep -f /tmp/fontsel.output the appropriate file.

Are there any gotchas that I should be aware of ?
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