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 MD> - doesn't block the X server while rasterizing fonts (most noticeable with TT MD> fonts) 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. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | 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/) | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
