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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2022-09-10 13:42:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2022-09-10 13:42:13 -0700 |
| commit | 314d802f6870a08163b47e058eeda775b8257744 (patch) | |
| tree | 40770d23804d3210fef1406970689eae98cef700 /man/xlsfonts.man | |
| parent | 8a29554a2edd31bf6f54babad0a13abb5618a155 (diff) | |
man page: emphasize this program is for querying an X server
Try to answer the question "How is this different from fslsfonts?"
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/xlsfonts.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/xlsfonts.man | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/xlsfonts.man b/man/xlsfonts.man index 44c445d..76a362c 100644 --- a/man/xlsfonts.man +++ b/man/xlsfonts.man @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ .\" -*- coding: us-ascii -*- .TH xlsfonts __appmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ .SH NAME -xlsfonts \- server font list displayer for X +xlsfonts \- list fonts available to X server .SH SYNOPSIS .ad l \fBxlsfonts\fR [\fB\-display \fBhost:dpy\fR\fR] [\fB\-l\fR] [\fB\-ll\fR] [\fB\-lll\fR] [\fB\-m\fR] [\fB\-C\fR] [\fB\-1\fR] [\fB\-w \fBwidth\fR\fR] [\fB\-n \fBcolumns\fR\fR] [\fB\-u\fR] [\fB\-o\fR] [\fB\-fn \fBpattern\fR\fR] [\fB\-v\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION -xlsfonts lists the fonts that match the given pattern. +xlsfonts lists the fonts available on an X server that match the given pattern. The wildcard character "*" may be used to match any sequence of characters (including none), and "?" to match any single character. If no pattern is given, "*" is assumed. @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ and exit. \fBDISPLAY\fR \fBDISPLAY\fR must be set to get the default host and display to use. .SH BUGS -Doing ``xlsfonts -l'' can tie up your server for a very long time. +Doing ``xlsfonts -l'' can tie up your X server for a very long time. This is really a bug with single-threaded non-preemptable servers, not with this program. .SH AUTHOR |