X11 font server on ubuntu

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Fri Nov 21 03:39:40 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:24:53PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I need to figure out how to make an ubuntu 8.04 system serve fonts to mingw X11
> on Windows.
> 
> The back story is I need to run with a moderately twisted environment because of
> disabilities requiring speech recognition.  The environment consists of the host
> OS  as 8.04, Windows as a virtual machine, and another 8.04 virtual machine is a
> development target.

Have you installed xfs and looked at the documentation? The last I
looked, that was the default Xfree font server. I just installed it via
apt-get, and it launched. 

-- 
Hal
 




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