Roger So <rogerso@debian.org> wrote:
> That's because modern applications don't use X to locate and use the
> fonts anymore. Most use fontconfig.
Gratuitously broken == modern? Yay!
Could fontconfig not query the X server (and therefore the font servers
it's using) for the fonts it knows about?
> Use NFS etc. to share them out, then tell fontconfig where they are by
> editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
Bah! I may as well just install them on the local machine!
> Hope this helps,
At least now I know my efforts are futile. Thanks for the help though.
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