[Courses] using X without XFS

[Laura Bowser]

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>
>	You do want the font server, so that you can have fonts working
>properly for your local machine, just like you do want to keep the X
>server so that you can have X working for your local machine.  This is
>mostly a problem grown out of the way that computing in Unix has evolved
>-- when Xwindows was written, a common setup was to have one machine
>doing most of the processing and a bunch of dumb terminals using its X
>and XFS power.  Nowadays it's common to only have the one machine you're
>on needing to access X and XFS.  So you do still need the server (as far
>as I know -- if someone knows a way to do it without, please do speak
>up) -- it's just that it's only serving the one machine it's on.

You can still run X without xfs as long as you're not sharing the Xfonts with 
other machines (XDMCP or dumb terminals, this doesn't apply if you run X 
through ssh)

look at your XF86Config (This is for XFree86 4.1 but works on all X that I 
know of), find the "Files" section

look for FontPath, if you see it looking for a socket or a port,you're using 
xfs, you can simply change it to list all your font directories.  
Here's my section as an example:
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
# to the end of this list (or comment them out).
#

    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"


Laura

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