fontconfig and font server

[François Patte]

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Bonjour,

I want to use xfs on a machine as a font server in order to give an
access to fonts that do not exist on a remote machine. This is done very
easely with xfs:

1- I commented the line:  no-listen = tcp in /etc/X11/fs/config on the
server.

2- I used xset fp+ tcp/xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt:7100 on the client
(xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt = IP number of the server)

And I could control that the "link" was working, using xlsfonts on the
client:

xlsfonts | grep "font-that-do-not-exist-on-the-client"

So far, so good!

But I am unable to use these remote fonts with a web navigator. This
seems to be the job of fontconfig and I did not find any instructions to
tell  /etc/fonts/fonts.conf to use the remote fonts.

Is that possible and how?

Tye break question: It seems that a navigator can only use fonts defined
in these directories (from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf):

~         <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
~        <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
~        <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF</dir>
~        <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

And that if you want to add a new directory of fonts for your navigator,
you have to put it in /usr/share/fonts/default, because, subdirectories
of the other directories are not read. Am I right?

Thank you for any help.

PS I tested this on FC1 and FC2 only.

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François Patte.

École Française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde
UFR de mathématiques et informatique.
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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