[NTLUG:Discuss] xfs weirdness

[MadHat]

Mark Bickel wrote:
> 
> > From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
> > To: discuss at ntlug.org
> > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] xfs weirdness
> 
> > Mark Bickel wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > xfs runs on port 7100 by default. make sure that port is not blocked.
> > > You may have a file /etc/X11/defaultFontPath. There should be a line:
> > >
> > > tcp/:7100
> > >
> > > at the point in the search path where you want X to look for the server,
> > > (usually at the top of the file).
> >
> > What distro are you running.  I am curious because I am running RH6.0
> > and have no such file on my system.  Is this file included with xfs, or
> > is it something called by another program to load the data somewhere
> > else?
> 
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 here at work.
> Its an X thing, not an xfs thing.
> My example may not have been the best.
> 
> tcp/localhost:7100  (if using local xserver)
> tcp/xfserver.myorg.net:7100 (an example of using a remote X font server)
> tcp/192.168.10.24:7100 (another entry example)
> 
> alternately, one may only have FontPath directives in /etc/XF86Config
> where again one can point to an X font server.

OK, that is what I was hoping.  On RH, it is in the /etc/X11/XF86Config
mine just has  
	FontPath   "unix/:-1"
which works fine and is the default...  
(not that I claim to know why it works with this entry...)	

from the man page
" X11R6  allows the X server to request fonts from a
font server.  A font server is specified by  plac-
ing   a  "<trans>/<hostname>:<port_number>"  entry
into the  fontpath."
So I am assuming that -1 means the default port, though I didn't see it
mentioned in the man page.  Or it may be something else...  I am not
sure.

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