[Fonts]a font server backwards ?

2001-12-28 Thread Sergey Babkin
All, I've been thinking about the fonts stuff and I think I've got an interesting idea about the font servers. Normally a font server runs as a TCP/IP server and the X server connects to it as a client. This is not very convenient because it makes running the running of a font server by a random

Re: [Fonts]a font server backwards ?

2001-12-28 Thread Keith Packard
Around 20 o'clock on Dec 28, Sergey Babkin wrote: > This is not very convenient because it makes running the running of a font > server by a random user not very easy. Also if it happens that the font > server crashes or has not been started, the X server tends to freese. Many applications come