176028eb6SmrgAll questions regarding this software should be directed at the 276028eb6SmrgXorg mailing list: 376028eb6Smrg 476028eb6Smrg https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg 576028eb6Smrg 676028eb6SmrgThe primary development code repository can be found at: 776028eb6Smrg 876028eb6Smrg https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xfs 976028eb6Smrg 1076028eb6SmrgPlease submit bug reports and requests to merge patches there. 1176028eb6Smrg 1276028eb6SmrgFor patch submission instructions, see: 1376028eb6Smrg 1476028eb6Smrg https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 1576028eb6Smrg 1676028eb6Smrg------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1776028eb6Smrg 1876028eb6Smrg[The rest of these notes come from the original X11R5 implementation 1976028eb6Smrg in 1991, and have been updated slightly for the xfs 1.1.0 modular release, 2076028eb6Smrg but are otherwise a bit stale.] 2176028eb6Smrg 2276028eb6SmrgInstallation instructions for fontserver 2376028eb6Smrg 2476028eb6Smrg1 - If you don't want to use the default config file location, 2576028eb6Smrgrun configure with the --with-default-config-file=path option to 2676028eb6Smrgpoint to the correct place. 2776028eb6Smrg 2876028eb6SmrgAn example config file is in ./config 2976028eb6Smrg 3076028eb6Smrg2 - modify the config file so the 'catalogue' 3176028eb6Smrgparameter points to a set of valid font directories. 3276028eb6Smrg 3376028eb6SmrgAt this point the test programs should work. Start the font server 3476028eb6Smrg(xfs &) and try some tests. Most of the clients take 3576028eb6Smrga command line switch of where to find the server, and 3676028eb6SmrgFSlib understands the environment variable FONTSERVER. 3776028eb6SmrgThe format is the same as Xlib, (ie, hostname:server_number). 3876028eb6Smrg 3976028eb6SmrgThe doc directory contains various pieces of documentation on the font 4076028eb6Smrgserver and associated software: 4176028eb6Smrg 4276028eb6Smrg xfs-design.xml - DocBook source of fontserver design overview 4376028eb6Smrg 4476028eb6SmrgTested font formats: 4576028eb6Smrg 4676028eb6SmrgThe fontserver has been tested with PCF, Speedo, SNF and BDF formats. 4776028eb6Smrg 4876028eb6SmrgTested environments: 4976028eb6Smrg 5076028eb6Smrgthe fontserver and clients have been built & tested on SPARC running 5176028eb6Smrg4.x and a DECstation 3100 running V4.0. it should work ok on any 32 5276028eb6Smrgbit UNIX w/ BSD sockets. 5376028eb6Smrg 5476028eb6Smrg------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5576028eb6Smrg 56