On 21/01/2010, at 11:16 AM, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 20/01/2010 21:41, Michael Cree a écrit : >> Hope you don't mind a question from a user who is running xfs: What >> replaces xfs? Should we now be running some other application for >> font serving? > > Please see this thread [1] in Gentoo's bugzilla for more info, I'm > sure > your questions have all been asked there.
Thanks, that is very helpful The problem is that we are running a modern application, namely the commercial package Mathematica, that would appear to require server side font rendering. It comes with its own set of maths fonts that are installed with the application on a high powered server that is behind locked doors. Users access it with any of Xwin32 on MS Windows PCs (the most likely), thin clients, X on a Mac, or a Linux desktop. Mathematica crashes or locks up if the X-server doesn't have access to the maths fonts (ain't that nice!). The easiest solution up to now has been to run xfs, except for X on Mac OS X for which we have to install the fonts on every user's Mac, which is problematic because we can't predict who might try to run Mathematica and abandons it without informing IT support when it does not work. I guess the solution is: 1) Write to Wolfram to advise them to fix their program. 2) When xfs is finally gone, and assuming Wolfram hasn't got its A into G, install the maths fonts on every possible machine that someone might be connecting from. A PITA, if I may say, when xfs was such an efficient and easy solution (from the point of view of IT administration). Cheers Michael. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
