On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:51:07AM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: > Does xfs need to be running in order to have the fonts installed > in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* in your system or with the references in > /etc/X11/XF86Config is enough? > > I suppose is the later. I don't quite understand your question, but I will try to cover the possibilities. *UNLESS* the X server(s) running on your local hardware will be using a fonts server on a remote host, the X font packages (which unpack into the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ directory) will be necessary. If you have a FontPath in your XF86Config that looks like this: FontPath "tcp/host-with-lots-of-fonts.foobar.net:7100" Then you are using a remote font server (unless your hostname happens to be the same as the one given). On the other hand, if your XF86Config FontPath looks like this: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11 R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" Then you are not going through the font server; the X server is going to those directories and getting the fonts it needs for itself. Needless to say, you can have the X server use local fonts AND a font server. xfs is in no way required to have a functional X installation. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If God had intended for man to go about branden@ecn.purdue.edu | naked, we would have been born that way. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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