hpux man page for xfs

XFS(1)							      General Commands Manual							    XFS(1)

NAME
       xfs - X font server

SYNOPSIS
       xfs [-config configuration_file] [-port tcp_port]

DESCRIPTION
       Xfs is the X Window System font server.	It supplies fonts to X Window System display servers.

STARTING THE SERVER
       The  server  is usually run by a system administrator, and started via boot files like /sbin/init.d/xfs.  Users may also wish to start pri-
       vate font servers for specific sets of fonts.

OPTIONS
       -config configuration_file
	       Specifies the configuration file the font server will use.

       -ls listen-socket
	       Specifies a file descriptor which is already set up to be used as the listen socket.  This option is only intended to  be  used	by
	       the font server itself when automatically spawning another copy of itself to handle additional connections.

       -port tcp_port
	       Specifies the TCP port number on which the server will listen for connections.

SIGNALS
       SIGTERM This causes the font server to exit cleanly.

       SIGUSR1 This signal is used to cause the server to re-read its configuration file.

       SIGUSR2 This signal is used to cause the server to flush any cached data it may have.

       SIGHUP  This signal is used to cause the server to reset, closing all active connections and re-reading the configuration file.

CONFIGURATION
       The configuration language is a list of keyword and value pairs.  Each keyword is followed by an '=' and then the desired value.

       Recognized keywords include:

       catalogue (list of string)
	      Ordered  list  of font path element names.  Use of the keyword "catalogue" is very misleading at present, the current implementation
	      only supports a single catalogue ("all"), containing all of the specified fonts.

       alternate-servers (list of string)
	      List of alternate servers for this font server.

       client-limit (cardinal)
	      Number of clients this font server will support before refusing service.	This is useful for tuning the load on each individual font
	      server.

       clone-self (boolean)
	      Whether this font server should attempt to clone itself when it reachs the client-limit.

       default-point-size (cardinal)
	      The default pointsize (in decipoints) for fonts that don't specify.  The default is 120.

       default-resolutions (list of resolutions)
	      Resolutions  the	server	supports by default.  This information may be used as a hint for pre-rendering, and substituted for scaled
	      fonts which do not specify a resolution.	A resolution is a comma-separated pair of x and y resolutions in pixels per inch.   Multi-
	      ple resolutions are separated by commas.

       error-file (string)
	      Filename of the error file.  All warnings and errors will be logged here.

       port (cardinal)
	      TCP port on which the server will listen for connections.

       use-syslog (boolean)
	      Whether syslog(3) (on supported systems) is to be used for errors.

       deferglyphs (string)
	      Set the mode for delayed fetching and caching of glyphs.	Value is "none", meaning deferred glyphs is disabled, "all", meaning it is
	      enabled for all fonts, and "16", meaning it is enabled only for 16-bits fonts.

EXAMPLE
       #
       # sample font server configuration file
       #

       # allow a max of 10 clients to connect to this font server
       client-limit = 10

       # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
       clone-self = on

       # alternate font servers for clients to use
       alternate-servers = hansen:7101,hansen:7102

       # where to look for fonts
       # the first is a set of Speedo outlines, the second is a set of
       # misc bitmaps and the last is a set of 100dpi bitmaps
       #
       catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/speedo,
	    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
	    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/

       # in 12 points, decipoints
       default-point-size = 120

       # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
       default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75
       use-syslog = off

FONT SERVER NAMES
       One of the following forms can be used to name a font server that accepts TCP connections:

	   tcp/hostname:port
	   tcp/hostname:port/cataloguelist

       The hostname specifies the name (or decimal numeric address) of the machine on which the font server is running.  The port is  the  decimal
       TCP port on which the font server is listening for connections.	The cataloguelist specifies a list of catalogue names, with '+' as a sepa-
       rator.

       Examples: tcp/fs.x.org:7100, tcp/18.30.0.212:7101/all.

       One of the following forms can be used to name a font server that accepts DECnet connections:

	   decnet/nodename::font$objname
	   decnet/nodename::font$objname/cataloguelist

       The nodename specifies the name (or decimal numeric address) of the machine on which the font server is running.  The objname is a  normal,
       case-insensitive DECnet object name.  The cataloguelist specifies a list of catalogue names, with '+' as a separator.

       Examples: DECnet/SRVNOD::FONT$DEFAULT, decnet/44.70::font$special/symbols.

FILES
       The config file for xfs resides in /etc/X11/fs/config.

SEE ALSO
       X(1), The X Font Service Protocol,
       Font server implementation overview

BUGS
       Multiple catalogues should be supported.

AUTHORS
       Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc
       Keith Packard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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