>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> Ar an triú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ilya N. Golubev:
> This again assumes personal computer (that is, totally controlled
by single
> person). Random x server does not have to allow arbitrary `xset fp+',
Aidan> Which random X server does not?
In the late 80s to mid 90's there were devices called X-Terminals. These were
boxes with a screen and keyboard that only ran the X server and quite popular
at the time. The boot image, fonts and related data were fetched via TFTP
from a server, and that directory tree was typically owned by root.
These days similar systems aren't as common, but running an X server in a
locked-down PC thin client might produce similar constraints.
In general I'd advise against mucking about with the font path unless we
*really* need to do it, such as supplying our own fonts.
Malcolm
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Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org>
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