All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg The primary development code repository can be found at: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xfs Please submit bug reports and requests to merge patches there. For patch submission instructions, see: https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [The rest of these notes come from the original X11R5 implementation in 1991, and have been updated slightly for the xfs 1.1.0 modular release, but are otherwise a bit stale.] Installation instructions for fontserver 1 - If you don't want to use the default config file location, run configure with the --with-default-config-file=path option to point to the correct place. An example config file is in ./config 2 - modify the config file so the 'catalogue' parameter points to a set of valid font directories. At this point the test programs should work. Start the font server (xfs &) and try some tests. Most of the clients take a command line switch of where to find the server, and FSlib understands the environment variable FONTSERVER. The format is the same as Xlib, (ie, hostname:server_number). The doc directory contains various pieces of documentation on the font server and associated software: xfs-design.xml - DocBook source of fontserver design overview Tested font formats: The fontserver has been tested with PCF, Speedo, SNF and BDF formats. Tested environments: the fontserver and clients have been built & tested on SPARC running 4.x and a DECstation 3100 running V4.0. it should work ok on any 32 bit UNIX w/ BSD sockets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------