Re: Why are so many people using font servers?
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 13:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 May 2003, Rob Weir wrote:
> > > Why is this? XFree86 has been able to handle TrueType fonts (along with
> >
> > Because if a font brings down the font-server, you don't lose your work. If
> > it brings down X...
>
> Well, if you save your document on a regular basis (you are doing that,
> right????), you'll only use 5-10 minutes work. Then, restart X.
"Work" does not always mean "document". It's very tedious unnecessarily
to lose state in the form of multiple terminal windows logged into lots
of different machines, multiple tabs open in a web browser, shell
history, and so on.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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