Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 10 o'clock on Nov 30, Brian Stell wrote:
>
> > > + What basic signalling mechanism should be used
> >
> > Probably a property event off the root window.
>
> That would work if everything related to fonts was an X application, and
> all of them were connected to the same display.
Could you suggest cases where an app would want to be
informed of font changes but would be against having
a connection to the display? This seems like an unusual
case.
> I'd like to solve the simple problem where all applications are running on
> the same machine; it seems like there should be some OS mechanism that
> will work for this.
How would remote clients get informed? This is a
"commonly supported" case.
> > If a font in added (eg: downloaded via a browser) would the
> > user need to log off for the X server / Xfs to see it?
>
> If the X server and Xfs shared the same font configuration mechanism as
> Xft, then they'd get updated information via the same route. Right now,
> you can install new fonts, re-run 'mkfontdir' and then 'xset fp rehash'
> and the X server will see the new fonts.
"you can install new fonts, re-run 'mkfontdir' ..."
Not in a system location unless you are running as root
(and it is common convention to not run as root whenever
possible to avoid accidently damaging the OS).
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Brian Stell
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