[gtk-list] Re: Changing widget attributes in gtk

[Per Lewau <perle lysator liu se>]

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, robert havoc pennington wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 
> > Change "-adobe-symbol-yadda-yadda-yadda" to whatever font
> > you want.  (x)fontsel is great for this.
> > 
> 
> Sort of a tangent: Is there a list somewhere of fonts that are guaranteed
> to be on all X servers? Are there any such fonts? 
> 
> Basically wondering which fonts it's safe to hard-code.

I believe only the Fixed font is guaranteed to be available everywhere. If
I'm not mistaken it says so in the Xlib Programming Manual (1st volume in
the X series by O'Reilly). Of course, things might have changed since
then, since that book only covers X11R5 (and perhaps earlier).

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