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tomisacat

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[Solved]How to know the exact name of a font?

Sometimes I wanna change the font of some software(i.e Conky),but how do I know the exact name of a font ? for example,I have installed Ubuntu's fonts,when I write my configure file ,should I consider the capital or lower case of the first letter?

THX.

Last edited by tomisacat (2012-08-11 12:45:14)

debdj

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Re: [Solved]How to know the exact name of a font?

Most of the fonts you want to use in applications are generally either in /etc/share/fonts or ~/.fonts

The fonts in conkyrc is named just as is, without the extension.
For e.g. if you have Inconsolata.otf in either of the directories, then ${font Inconsolata:size=9,weight:normal} sets font to it.

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Re: [Solved]How to know the exact name of a font?

gtk2fontsel

xfontsel (just in case...)

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brebs

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Re: [Solved]How to know the exact name of a font?

Use the fc-query command.

tomisacat

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Re: [Solved]How to know the exact name of a font?

Use the fc-query command.

THX,a familiar command 「fc-list」 helped me.