On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > > I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it > > already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it > > looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the 'catalogue' > > line in /etc/X11/xfs/config. You have to set this to exactly the set of > > font dirs that you have. Xfs is very unforgiving if you specify an > > unexisting or empty directory (dumps core on my computer). I encountered > > the same problem when I wanted to start using xfs for the fonts and found > > that I had to remove the '100dpi' directory from the 'catalogue' line. It > > now works fine for me. > > What is the xfs for? Why using it? Though I don't this daemon, I have > no problem using X11.
Xfs is the X Font Server. You won't have much problems if you don't use it, but it seems to be better than letting the X server manage the fonts in some cases. For example, you don't have to gunzip all fonts if you are using an X server that doesn't understand gzipped fonts. And of course you can use one font server to serve a whole network of X servers (I have no idea what the performance would be). Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
