Kaixo!
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:59:27PM +0100, Magnus Holmberg wrote:
> Do I need the FontServer with Xfree4.0 ? I thought the Xserver has
> truetype support it self or ??
That has been the case since ever (the same code is used by the xfs font
server and the X server; that code can have TTF support or not, but
once you have the support it is available on both sides.)
However, XFree86 servers are not threaded, that means that having the X11
server doing all the font stuff may "freeze" the displaying for some time,
maybe even several seconds, when loading big font files.
The responsivness of the X11 system is better when a separate font server
is used.
That is, the xfs package is not there because X serrvers lack font support,
but for convenience (it also has other advantages, like a simpler config file
allowing for simpler and less problematic automatized font adding/removing;
the possibility to share fonts accross a local network, etc)
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Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga
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