On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Andrej Marjan wrote: > You shouldn't need an external font server. I'm attaching my configuration
Unless this has changed in XFree86 4.0.x, there is a very good reason to have a font server. If it freezes for a long time trying to render that monstruous unicode font or something like that, X won't freeze along with it. Actually, given XFree86's new found resilience against font servers dying (this used to be a DoS in older XFree86 releases), you can do more: I have a font server serving all fonts as the first entry in the font path, and the Xserver as a backup serving the same fonts later in the font path. If the font server dies, the Xserver takes over the rendering. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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