Re: checking that xfs is working

[Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>]

> Well, I may be the wrong person to answer, but I've tackled these
> same problems recently, so I feel I can help.  8)

> If I've stated something wrong, please, someone correct me.

nope, you're right.  I tackled them on macbsd.



> You see, you can have the local X server read the fonts itself
> (from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/*) or have it talk to a fontserver.  Debian
> defaults to having most font packages add themselves to the fontpath
> in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs.  On most stand-alone
> machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell.

Probably, for most apps.  I end up using it as an end-run around the X's
single-threading.  It literally takes minutes on this class of machine
to render some of the postscript fonts used by some programs.  Running
xfs on the same machine lets teh display continue to work.

(another month, and this *won't* be a problem :)


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