<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>X11-big-cursor MINIHOWTO: Related info</TITLE> <LINK HREF="X-Big-Cursor-6.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="X-Big-Cursor.html#toc7" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> Next <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor-6.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor.html#toc7">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="info"></A> <A NAME="s7">7. Related info</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="fontserver"></A> <A NAME="ss7.1">7.1 How to use a font server</A> </H2> <P>A font server is a net service that provides a set of X11 fonts with a simple protocol. It can be queried which fonts it provides and will supply the font bitmap data on request. <P>You might want to use a font server to provide the X server with a modified cursor font, instead of telling it where to find the font on the file system. <P>This method is especially handy if you use several machines that don't share a common file system or if you use X terminals that support the font server protocol. <P>A font server program and associated tools comes with the X11R5+ distribution (AFAIK). <P> <H3><A NAME="fsconfig"></A> Setting up a font server</H3> <P>Read the manual pages <EM>fs(1)</EM>, <EM>fslsfonts(1)</EM> (or <EM>xfs(1)</EM>, <EM>xfslsfonts(1)</EM> under X11R6) and try it—it isn't hard. Say, you are running the server on host <CODE>some.host.edu</CODE> on port 7100. You can test the setup with the command <P><CODE>fslsfonts -server some.host.edu:7100</CODE> <P>To actually use the server issue the command <P><CODE>xset +fp tcp/some.host.edu:7100</CODE> <P>which should return without an error message. <P> <P> <H2><A NAME="getbdf"></A> <A NAME="ss7.2">7.2 How to get the bdf source for some font</A> </H2> <P>If you have set up a font server simply use <CODE>fstobdf</CODE> which comes with the font server. <P>Alternatively you may try <CODE>getbdf</CODE> which can dump any installed X11 font to a bdf file. <P> <HR> Next <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor-6.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="X-Big-Cursor.html#toc7">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>