X11 font server on ubuntu

[Eric S. Johansson]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 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. 
> 

hmm. I was doing some more research since my original post and, apparently the
whole font server thing is rather confusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Font_Server

I'll try xfs and see how it works.  Thanks for the reference.