On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, marty scholes wrote:
> Thought I'd post this for the next poor sap that goes thru X font
> hell.
>
> It turns out that X font handling has changed some in the 8 years
> since I last fiddled with it. The handling of fonts at the X server
> level always felt kinda hokey, and now it seems the fonts can be dealt
> with by a central server, creatively called an X font server. This is
> "a good thing." This way fonts can be managed centrally and yield
> consistent results across all X servers.
Well, access to them can be, anyway. ;)
> <WHINE> We went thru some head trauma to ensure that there were zero
> static IP addresses known to the individual Mandrake boxes (X
> terminals).
That'll teach you to target an end of dubious merit. ;)
> We used DHCP for the boxes themselves and XDMCP broadcasts to let the
> X servers discover an XDM server. Sadly, with xfs, those days seem
> gone. Now on the command line I have to tell the X server where to
> find the font server. If I ever need to move xfs, I will have to go
> around the company and reconfig everyone's X terminal. Bummer.
> </WHINE>
You should be able to use a hostname to specify the font server. At
least, every X server I ever met could. So, on that basis, using DHCP
and either dynamic DNS updates or some local version of the same should
resolve that problem.
Not that this is probably news, but hey. :)
Daniel
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