Re: how to find out which fortname (as in xlsfonts) does "Sans 7" correspond?

[Brett Granger <bdgranger alum mit edu>]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Miernik <miernik ctnet pl> writes:
>
>
> > In the file /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc we put fornmaes in the format "Sans 7". 
> >
> > However fonts in X are generally known by names like
> > -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
>
>
> This format (XLFD) is only used in the PangoX backend which will soon
> die.  No GTK+-2.0 application should be using it directly and X fonts
> as you know them will soon be completely obsoleted and deprecated.

But the question may still be good:  Given a font_name like "Sans 7", is 
there a way to find out which font Pango has chose to use?  On some 
systems around here, even when my font_name is "Sans 14" Pango sometimes 
chooses a font that is very obviously not sans serif.  Generally can be 
tracked down to a missing dir in the XftConfig file, but how would I 
ever know which font was really selected?

--Brett Granger