Re: Why use a font server?
Another reason is that some TrueType fonts have problems rendering correctly.
Some font servers actually render better than others. They can provide an alternative
way of providing fonts in case the X server is having troubles getting them.
Think of it as a redundant backups for fonts.
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>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
>> The default for XFree in Debian is to use a font server. My question is
>> why?
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>See attachment.
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>On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:07:11AM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote:
>> Is the font server a relic from the days of small, expensive disks, so
>> you only need to store the fonts in one place on your network? Or does
>> it do something else that would be useful?
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>The X server is single-threaded, so the entire X server will hang while
>rasterizing a font. If you use a font server, this doesn't happen.
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>Admittedly, this is a less serious problem in this age of fast machines.
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>xfs might also be an advantage on a machine with multiple X servers
>running, centralizing the workload. One X server that needs a fond may
>find that the work has already been done by xfs on behalf of another X
>server.
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>Finally xfs may be useful where you have a large and complex font
>installation at your site and you need to export them to multiple hosts
>and for some reason (perhaps due to licensing reasons), you can just
>copy the fonts physically onto the local disk of every X server.
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>> I've never found a clear explanation of *how* to use it, let alone a
>> hint of *why* or why not to use it.
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>How it works is pretty simple.
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>On the font server side:
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>Install whatever fonts it's supposed to serve. Set up
>/etc/X11/fs/config (or whatever path works on your box) as described in
>xfs(1). Run it with an init script.
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>On the X server side:
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>Put a reference to the font server in the "Files" section of the
>XF86Config file.
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