Hi everybody!
I installed artwiz fonts, terminus, maybe something else which are bitmap fonts, but I can't find a way to see all them to select which of them I wanna use in Fluxbox (since Fluxbox is configurable in text files, I can't choose the font I like in a viewer). I need someting like xfontsel. xfontsel sees fonts but not all and its output is a mess. fontforge also doesn't seem to be a viewer. I need to see only bimaps fonts and their sizes and styles like bold, italic, etc... Is there any application/method to do it?

But... xfontsel should show them all. It won't show truetype fonts though, and it won't show any size you want. Only the available ones. Remember that bitmap fonts are not that flexible.

I have Terminus installed and well-working. But it's not in xfontsel. Why?

Well, old applications can rely on your FontPath (xorg.conf) to find fonts. Most distros nowadays have a tendency not to use xorg.conf. Try adding the path to the font file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you can use mine as an example.

Paths might vary depending on the distro. You will need to restart X and you can check if the settings are taking effects looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

I added the paths, fonts seem to be all in xfontsel now, but Fluxbox looks like this.

Fluxbox overlay file:

"artwiz-fonts" & "terminus-font" packages are installed.

What is wrong with Fluxbox? How can I configure the fonts?

I don't know so much about fluxbox theming so I can't speak from my own experience here.

But, to me, your systax doesn't seem ok if what you want to use is a bitmap font (that's what you were after, weren't you?).

Fluxbox, like some other wm's, can handle fonts in many ways. For bitmap fonts the fontname should be something like what xfontsel says shows. You can copy/paste from it (that's what the "select" button in xfontsel is for). For example, go to "fmly", choose "terminus", click "select", then middle click in your text editor and it should paste the font name there for you:

You can select many more fields, for example, if you choose fmly terminus and pxlsz 12 you get this when pasting:

This is what you should be using, probably.

The other syntax is for xft, and you'd then be using scalable fonts which would make me think why did you want to fix the bitmap fonts issue to start with.

The flux wiki seems to agree with me:

http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Change_font

Thanks, I'll try now.

P. S. For syntax I read this: http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Style_overlay . As wiki says it is for Fluxbox 0.9.15 and newer.

How do you copy fontname like "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" from xfontsel? "Select" button doesn't seem to do anything...

Select button puts the text into the X cut buffer, to paste it anywhere just use middle click right after clicking "select".

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