358 Part II . Getting Around in Linux Figure 9-9: xvidtune Configuring fonts The X font server keeps track of all of the fonts installed on a system and lets a client use them, either locally or from across the network. Usually the font server does its work in the background, but when new fonts are added you need to make sure the font server is notified. The X server knows to get fonts from the font server with the following entry in the XF86Config file: FontPath unix/:-1 The syntax for this is as follows: FontPath
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This example tells the X server to use the font server on the local system, since the unix transport, no hostname, and the -1port is used. If you use a network font server, you would need to change this line. For example, suppose you have a font server named font.ournetwork.com listening on port 7100. You would use this directive: FontPath tcp/font.ournetwork.com:7100 Font files are stored in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11//fonts directory tree. Each subdirectory off this tree contains fonts and a couple of files that tell the X server about the fonts installed. If you install new fonts, you need to run mkfontdir to create these files. The syntax for mkfontdir is as follows: mkfontdir
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