<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > 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 -- EuroOSCON: October 17th-20th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/ "From my observation, when it comes to porting Linux to a particular device, a point doesn't appear to be necessary." - mpt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
