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

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Brett Granger <bdgranger alum mit edu> writes:

> 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?

This might be a little hackish and perhaps there's a simpler way, but
did you try to strace a gtk+ fontselector?


Sven