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. .:: paste.toolforge.org ::.
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. .:: luongsontv5com5.weebly.com ::. [Reference: Firewall]
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.
A font server program and associated tools comes with the X11R5+ distribution (AFAIK). .:: podcasts.apple.com ::. [Machine learning Definition]
Read the manual pages fs(1), fslsfonts(1) (or
xfs(1), xfslsfonts(1) under X11R6) and try it—it isn't
hard. Say, you are running the server on host .:: telegra.ph ::. some.host.edu
on port 7100. You can test the setup with the command
fslsfonts -server some.host.edu:7100
To actually use the server issue the command
xset +fp tcp/some.host.edu:7100
which should return without an error message.
If you have set up a font server simply use fstobdf which
comes with the font server.
Alternatively you may try getbdf which can dump any installed
X11 font to a bdf file.
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