On Friday 09 January 2004 15:10, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> BTW - when I run xfontsel, it reports that I have 7997 fonts (including the 
> adobe-helvetica). But when I tried using that font in Kwrite, KMail and 
> Mozilla, I discovered that I seem to be missing alot of fonts (for instance 
> adobe, elmar and many others).

These versions are probabley compiled to use XFT which search fonts on
the client side (using Fontconfig). Pitty that with all these advances we
loose the server side fonts mechanisms...

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