How to get a list of installed True Type Fonts on Linux using C or C++?

Question

How can my app get a list of the True Type Fonts that are available on Linux.

Is there a standard directory where they are stored across different distributions? Or

Answer 1

If you aren't writing proprietary software, or any other licensed software that's incompatible with GPL, you could try looking at the code to xlsfonts to see how to query the font server. (The font server could be X itself, but it won't matter.)