Font server monitoring

[S Fasett]

I have been trying to figure out which fonts an application of mine is using. I have been searching the web on some way to monitor exactly which fonts are going in and out of the Xserver, so I can track what fonts my application is using.

But the end goal here is to find out exactly what is being displayed on my screen when I launch my application, so if there is some way to analyze the fonts being displayed on the screen, through a third party utility or other means, that would be good as well (not only good, but probably preferable).

All I need to know is the type of font(s) I'm seeing in my application on the screen.

Anybody have any ideas? I'm stumped.

[Charles Slivkoff]

You will need to examine the X11 protocol being transmitted between client and server. A network trace (ie, nettl, tcpdump, or a hardware sniffer) would be able to log the traffic, but you may need to filter the data significantly to identify the X protocol and its associated data. If you can find a copy of "xscope", it would make this easer. "xscope" would sit between the client and server, similar to the "tee" command-line utility.

[Wodisch · Accepted solution]

Hello,

how about using a PC with an X-server software like Reflection/X, configured to use fonts from your font-server, and store them locally. But without any local fonts!
Then use your applications, open all windows/dialogs, and at the end you'll have all the fonts you ever needed stored in the font-server directory on that PC...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch