Around 10 o'clock on Dec 1, Brian Stell wrote:
> Could you suggest cases where an app would want to be informed of font > changes but would be against having a connection to the display? This seems > like an unusual case. Any system not using X for graphics. Plus, the font installer itself will likely not be an X application as it would want to be able to run on servers without a display. There isn't a central registry of clients *running* on a machine; X only provides a list of clients *connected* to the machine. > How would remote clients get informed? This is a > "commonly supported" case. Fonts are now a client-side problem; remote clients would presumably be informed when the list of fonts changed in their file system. > "you can install new fonts, re-run 'mkfontdir' ..." > > Not in a system location unless you are running as root > (and it is common convention to not run as root whenever > possible to avoid accidently damaging the OS). One can modify the X server's font path to point at a directory controlled by the current user. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
