Font Use

For your Motif widgets, use the fonts supplied by the Common Desktop Environment so that your application's windows look like other desktop client windows and so that users can change the size of these fonts using the Style Manager. If you override the supplied fonts by changing the Motif fontList resource specifications, then you must provide additional functionality if you want users to be able to customize the fonts in your application.

Use the fonts from the Common Desktop Environment standard application font names to specify--in your app-defaults file--resources you use within your application (aside from the ones Motif uses for its widgets). This ensures that your application finds the appropriate fonts on all Common Desktop Environment platforms, which makes your application more portable across such platforms. For more information, see "Standard Font Names" .

The Style Manager only controls fonts for applications written using Motif version 1.2 or later. It will not supply correct fonts for Motif 1.1 (or earlier) applications. These applications must specify their own fonts in the app-defaults file.