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Xfsinfo is a utility for displaying information about an X font server. It is used to examine the capabilities of a server, the predefined values for various parameters used in communicating between clients and the server, and the font catalogues and alternate servers that are available.
-server servername This option specifies the X font server to contact. servername must be specified in one of the formats defined in the Font Server Names section of X(__miscmansuffix__). If not specified, the server name in the FONTSERVER environment variable is used.
-version This option prints the program version and exits.
The following shows a sample produced by xfsinfo .
example% xfsinfo -server hansen:7100 name of server: hansen:7100 version number: 1 vendor string: Font Server Prototype vendor release number: 17 maximum request size: 16384 longwords (65536 bytes) number of catalogues: 1 all Number of alternate servers: 2 #0 hansen:7101 #1 hansen:7102 number of extensions: 0
8 FONTSERVER To get the default fontserver. The server name must be specified in one of the formats defined in the Font Server Names section of X(__miscmansuffix__).