Changing fonts

Using the font server

The font server can be started in one of several ways:

from the command line (useful for testing the font server)
from a system startup file such as /etc/rc2.d/S91fontserv;

There are two parts to the process of using the font server:

Start the font server on a machine with fonts installed. That machine will provide fonts, via the font server, to other machines on the network.
Configure the X servers on the network to request fonts from the font server.

There are several ways you can configure font services, including setting up multiple font server machines, setting an optimum number of servers to quickest possible access to fonts, limiting the number of fonts available, and changing the TCP ports used by the font server.