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> I don't know why a separate server process is needed for handling fonts; I
> just take it on faith that it's a good idea in context.

Font servers are irrelevant these days, as modern tookits use client side
font selection and rendering (fontconfig and Xft). Once upon a time, it was
handy to have a font server running on your network so all your X servers
(hardware terminals) could have access to the same fonts.

- Jeff

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