TEXTWIDTH(1)

✨ TEXTWIDTH(1) β€” the dzen2-textwidth glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for dzen2-textwidth πŸ’– this is a tiny lil tool but she's iconic, no cap.


🌸 NAME 🌸

dzen2-textwidth β€” literally calculates the width in pixels of text for a given font. that's it. that's the whole job. and she ate πŸ’…


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

dzen2-textwidth  fontname string

two args. that's the whole vibe. you got this fr fr ✨


πŸ’œ DESCRIPTION πŸ’œ

textwidth is a simple utility that calculates the width in pixels of text with a given font. lowkey does exactly what it says on the tin πŸŽ€

this tool is provided as part of the dzen2 (1) package β€” so she's part of a bigger friend group, and honestly? the friend group is slaying.


πŸ‘‘ OPTIONS πŸ‘‘

here's the rundown, bestie, a summary of options is included below:

  • fontname β€” set the font. that's the font, girl, that's what it is πŸ’…
  • string β€” set the string. yes, the string. the text. the actual words. iconic.

🫢 AUTHOR 🫢

textwidth was written by Robert Manea. give him his flowers, he earned them 🌸

this manual page was written by bertagaz <bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). sharing is caring, periodt πŸ’–


πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

dzen2(1), dzen2-dbar(1), dzen2-gcpubar(1), and dzen2-gdbar(1). go read the rest of the family, they're all serving 🌈


and that's the whole page, bestie!! written way back on Jan 01 2008, from the General Commands Manual section of the TEXTWIDTH(1) source, and she's still out here calculating pixel widths like the main character she is πŸ’…βœ¨ bye ily πŸŽ€