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Re: Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config-4 don't work



Thus spake Neilen Marais:
> Hi all
> 
> The fontpath as in the subject seems to be the default for X4 setup.
> Anyhow, I was surprised it did not work, since xfs-xtt does run, and is
> afaik a font server.
> 
> Upon closer investigation, it seems that xfs-xtt is running at  port
> 7110, since:
> 
>   ps aux | grep xfs
> nobody     189  0.0  4.2 17656 16204 ?       S    14:23   0:00
> /usr/bin/X11/xfs-xtt -daemon -user nobody -port 7110
> 
> Anyhow, so what I'd like to know, is this a bug, or should another font
> server be installed to serve non-truetype fonts.  Serving truetype
> fonts is what xfs-xtt is for, if I remember correctly?
xfs serves fonts at port 7100 - if you want it, you can use it,
although X4 does much of this on it's own.
HTH,
Steve
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