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There was one called xlsfonts which would list all the available fonts.

https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xlsfonts.1.ht...

If you're thinking of an X11 GUI, I think perhaps you mean xfontsel?

No, I meant xlsfonts, as in the above man page I linked to.

It is a command line tool and can be used without a GUI. You can even query for the fonts on another X server's display (1). See this excerpt:

-display host:dpy This option specifies the X server to contact.

(1) - where the meaning of server and client is the reverse of that of traditional client server.

Fair, I was thinking that because its not actually an X11 GUI (though it is X11 of course)

Its fun to query or set information on a remote. The same applies to xdpyinfo, xset, xrandr and many more support the -display option (if they don't then set the DISPLAY environment variable).

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