Configuring the font server

The font server can be configured using command-line options, or using a configuration file. You can change different aspects of the font server, including:

• the fonts that a server will make available to other font servers

• the default point size and resolutions the font server makes available to X servers

• the hostnames from which the X server will receive fonts (from font servers running on those hosts)

• the TCP port address that the font server uses

• the number of connections to X servers that a given font server allows and the action the font server takes when that number of connections is exceeded

In addition, you can set up your X server to use a mix of local fonts and remote fonts from a font server, and even specify an alternate font server configuration file.