28 Jul
2010
28 Jul
'10
2:55 p.m.
On 7/28/10 4:35 PM, Richard wrote:
The font database is maintained by the server. In
X11, fonts are
never on the client.
This (unfortunately) isn't the case anymore. There's a big trend
nowadays toward moving font handling into the client. This is a bad
idea for a bunch of reasons, but there's just no convincing the GTK
crowd of anything. The results are gorgeous, but heaven help you if you
try to run an X client from a few hundred network-milliseconds away. I
regularly run X clients in Wisconsin and display them in Florida...thank
heaven that stuff isn't using client-side font handling!
It looks like your initialization script is attempting
to do xhost to
add hosts to the list of hosts to be trusted by this X server. See
<http://www.netadmintools.com/html/xhost.man.html> This is the "old
school" way of doing security with X11; I think they now have a
public/private key pair based way of doing things.
Yes, xauth. Xauth has been around for about twenty years, though;
it's just that it's sometimes not used because it's a pain in the butt.
There's also a standardized method to use Kerberos 5 to authenticate
clients to X servers, believe it or not!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL