Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 13 o'clock on Sep 3, Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> > I have a font, and I'd like to make it available permanently,
> > either for myself, or other users. Temporarily adding
> > files/directories is useful, but not sufficient.
>
> You can add a directory to the search list in your private
> configuration file or the system-wide one. As long as the format
> of this file is simple enough, I believe a convention will work
> well enough that additional API complexity can be avoided.
I took Jim's request to be more along the line:
An app acquires a font (eg: automatic font download to the
browser) and wants to add it to the general font pool (which
often requires root level privilege for write). The font
catalogs may also need to be updated which again may require
root privilege.
Here's one possible idea:
Send a message (basically the file name) to a listener process
which then handles installing the font and informing interested
clients that a new font is available.
One way to do the messaging would be via property messages on the
root window.
Brian Stell
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