Re: Why are so many people using font servers?

[Morten Bo Johansen <mbj@spamfilter.dk>]

Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> wrote:


RW> I've noticed that a lot of people (both here and on #debian on OPN) are
RW> using font servers with X (xfs, xfstt, xfs-xtt, etc, etc) on a single
RW> machine, i.e. they're not sharing the fonts over the network.  

RW> Why is this?  XFree86 has been able to handle TrueType fonts (along with
RW> Type1, bitmap, etc) directly since version 4, so what's up?  Am I
RW> missing some important feature here, or is it just not yet common
RW> knowledge that font servers are now (and have been since XFree86 4 was
RW> released a long time ago) unnecessary for 99% of workstations?

I was under the impression that xfs is still needed whereas the
truetype font server xfstt is superfluous as of XFree86 version
4.x.

But I also find the font configuration issues under Debian
terribly confusing.



Morten

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