Re: is the xfont set needed on X client and/or server? [was: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/notes]

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:35:22AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Let's try asking this here:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >>Log Message:
> >> * Clarify that the xfont set is only needed by the X server
> >
> >Is that still true now that many programs do client side rendering?
> 
> I don't know. If someone could answer if the xfont set is needed on either 
> X client or server, I'd love to hear about it, and update our docs...

At least Firefox will crash when it can't find a local font. I'm not
sure whether they would also use bitmap founds by default, but at least
TTF and Type1 are supposedly needed by the client for those programs as
well.

Joerg