Around 18 o'clock on Nov 24, Owen Taylor wrote:

> The reason that we didn't try to make them follow the user's font
> configuration is that it was problematic to have the font a particular
> name referred to change while a program was running, while the fonts
> in the font preferences dialog should take affect immediately.

Then you should have changed the file and broadcast a message to get the 
apps to re-read the configuration files. That's easy enough to do.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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