Setting Desktop Font Resources

The Style Manager Font dialog box enables you to select fonts (up to seven sizes) for things such as text entry and labels. It also enables you to add or delete font groups.

Resources Set by the Font Dialog Box

When a font is selected, the following resources are written to the RESOURCE_MANAGER property:

• SystemFont is used for system areas, such as menu bars, menu panes, push buttons, toggle buttons, and labels. The following resource is set by SystemFont:

  *FontList—displayed in system areas of desktop clients and other clients created using the OSF/Motif toolkit.

• UserFont is used for text entered into windows. The following resources are set by UserFont:

  *Font—supports earlier versions of X applications

  *FontSet—the primary setting

  *XmText*FontList—displayed in text entry boxes

  *XmTextField*FontList—displayed in text entry boxes

Resources Used by the Font Dialog Box

The fonts used for each selection in the Font dialog box are specified in the /usr/dt/app-defaults/Dtstyle resource file. Up to seven sizes can be specified.

NumFonts—number of font sizes in the Font dialog box

SystemFont[1-7]—up to seven resources assigning a specific font to a Font dialog box selection for SystemFont

UserFont[1-7]—up to seven resources assigning a specific font to a Font dialog box selection for UserFont

The default fonts for these resources have been chosen for readability on various displays. If you want a specific font for an application, set the font with an application font resource rather than changing these desktop fonts.

For more information about application fonts, see the DtStdAppFontNames(5) and DtStdInterfaceFontNames(5) man pages.