Re: text looks different on different displays

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Valdis Kletnieks vt edu wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:53:49 EDT, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff purple com>  said:
>
>
> > Thanks, I was thinking something like this, but it seems the metric
> > information is wrong on one. That is, buttons displayed on one machine
> > look like normal,
> >
> >   +----------+
> >   |  button  |
> >   +----------+
> >
> > on the other they get displayed all spread out like this:
> >
> >   +--------------------+
> >   |  b  u  t  t  o  n  |
> >   +--------------------+
>
>
> Well, they could still be different fonts.. remember that the XLFD spec has a 'width'
> field (third from the end)... soooo:
>
> %  xlsfonts -fn "-*-*-*-r-normal-sans-*-140-100-100-*-*-iso8859-15"
> -b&h-lucida-bold-r-normal-sans-19-140-100-100-p-0-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucida-bold-r-normal-sans-20-140-100-100-p-127-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-19-140-100-100-p-0-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-20-140-100-100-p-114-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-19-140-100-100-m-0-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-20-140-100-100-m-120-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-19-140-100-100-m-0-iso8859-15
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-20-140-100-100-m-120-iso8859-15
> ...

Is there any way to find out which file on the system contains
a given font?