On 18 Apr 2001 19:26:26 +0400, Ilya Martynov said: > > MD> Sorry for the OT post, but I am allergic to misinformation. ;) > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. :) > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/) | > | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | > | AGAVA Software Company (http://www.agava.com/) | > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >
