On 18 Apr 2001 19:26:26 +0400, Ilya Martynov said:
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> MD> Sorry for the OT post, but I am allergic to misinformation. ;)
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> MD> ashridah wrote:
>
> >> i don't particularly like xfs. don't know why. seems a little useless to
> >> have a server for one box.
> >> perhaps for diskless Xterminals, maybe. nevertheless.
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> MD> A font server makes a lot of sense even on a single machine for a lot of
> MD> reasons including:
>
> MD> - you can use one font server for several X servers
granted, but that could be said to fall under the same idea (no, not exactly,
i'm being generalistic)
as the diskless Xterminal.
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> MD> - doesn't block the X server while rasterizing fonts (most noticeable with TT
> MD> fonts)
true, there are all sorts of side issues with font rendering that i'm leaping
over. but having an entire
separate daemon just for a local service seems a little extensive to solve that
problem, regardless of
the advantages. still, the same could be said for things like devfsd (having a
userspace daemon for
what should probably remain in kernel land) ie, it's more excessive a solution,
but the line is fairly
blurry. i'd just rather use it where it's clearly an advantage, ie it makes
management simpler.
>
>
> Another reason to use font server:
>
> I've seen XFree86 4.02 X server to crash when WINE have calculated
> font metrics for TTF fonts.
yeah. i had that once. i solved it by deleting the offending font. it was a
font i'd taken from a windows install iirc, so it being broken didn't surprise
me. :)
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