X in FC7
Avi Kivity
avi at argo.co.il
Tue Nov 14 20:31:21 UTC 2006
Adam Jackson wrote:
>
> As said on the wiki page, what problem is xfs trying to solve? If
> it's just about the ability to add fonts at runtime without having to
> do 'xset fp rehash', then that should be a very small amount of code
> to add to the X server. You need to watch for directories popping in
> and out of existance, but, okay, we know how to do that.
Wasn't the X font server designed for storageless X terminals?
You'd just point the X server at the font server, and get the fonts you
need, without needing to replace the terminal's ROM.
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