[SOLVED] Variations of "fixed" font using Xlib?

[Zurg11]

Hello !

I have recently started programming using Xlib and C. As you probably already know, to specify that you want your application to use default font you set font to "fixed", like this

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font = XLoadQueryFont(display, "fixed");

But how can I get variations of that font, like bold, italic and bold italic?

I have tried specifying this string instead of "fixed".

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-*-*-*-*-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

or

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-*-fixed-*-*-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

(This is X logical font description.)
But it didn't work, text didn't show up. I thought that if I can specify "fixed" font like this that I can later change 3th field to "bold", 4th to "italic" and so on.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Try using this to get a correct name:

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xfontsel

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/x11-utils

This seems to be valid (but with a limited size selection available):

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-*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

[Zurg11]

Try using this to get a correct name:

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xfontsel

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/x11-utils

This seems to be valid (but with a limited size selection available):

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-*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Thanks for the help, that does work if I replace "bold" with "medium". But it doesn't work with "bold" because it seems that bold variation does not exist on this system ("bold" field is grayed out in xfontsel) for some reason. Is that normal? How can I install bold variation?

[Zurg11]

Try using this to get a correct name:

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xfontsel

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/x11-utils

This seems to be valid (but with a limited size selection available):

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-*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Thanks for the help, that does work if I replace "bold" with "medium". But it doesn't work with "bold" because it seems that bold variation does not exist on this system ("bold" field is grayed out in xfontsel) for some reason. Is that normal? How can I install bold variation?

Nah it's okay, I was wrong .