On Tuesday 15 April 2003 6:17 pm, Ryan Hayle wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 11:51, Austad, Jay wrote:
> > Your font server is not running.  /etc/init.d/xfs start (if you have
> > redhat or mandrake, not sure on other distros)
>
> People still actually use external font servers?  But why?  What's the
> point?  Unless you're still on xf3 for some silly reason; I'm just not
> aware of any apparent benefits.  Anyone care to enlighten me?

It also helps if you have multiple X servers running.  Only having the fonts 
loaded into the font server saves on memory.  Not that too many people are 
doing that on a home desktop.


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