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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