Dear all,
My question was: "How should I set up my Alpha box so as to download the fonts
for X-terminals from it?"
I gathered the answer from: Yves Vander Haegen
Yizhong Zhou
Knut Helleboe
Miguel Mena
Leonardo Lazarte
Reinhardt Doelz
Thanks to you! Here it is:
1) My X-terminals are set to use the tftp protocol.
- check in /etc/inetd.conf that the tftpd entry is not commented out
- check the last parameter in this line. It is the "home directory" for
tftp. Let us call it /usr/tftpboot
2) As far as I understand now, the client (my X-terminal) can get a file
ONLY from this directory. Thus, a link MUST be made between /usr/tftpboot
and the actual directory where the fonts reside.
I therefore made a soft link between /usr/tftpboot/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir
and /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir
idem for 75dpi
3) Now I just define the font path in the X-terminal configuration window
as /usr/tfptpboot/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir
and here it is. Thanks again.
Jean-Loup
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