On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 19:56, Sam Couter wrote: > Gratuitously broken == modern? Yay! > > Could fontconfig not query the X server (and therefore the font servers > it's using) for the fonts it knows about?
Well, X doesn't provide enough information for fontconfig/Xft to work properly, and it was found that putting the fonts on the client side is actually more efficient. So it was done that way. See http://fontconfig.org and http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/ if you're interested. > > Use NFS etc. to share them out, then tell fontconfig where they are by > > editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. > > Bah! I may as well just install them on the local machine! If you really want to have a font server, have a look at STSF (http://stsf.sourceforge.net). They provide a fontconfig/Xft wrapper that enables GTK+ programs to use fonts hosted on an STSF server. I haven't tried it out yet though, so can't say how well it works. Roger
