jwinner@oracle.com (02/21/90)
Hi, I have been trying to make some font aliases and I have noticed that XListFonts will return aliases for fonts that do not exist. Is this a bug? Shouldn't the xserver verify the existence of the actual font before returning the name from XListFonts? Thanks Jeff
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (02/22/90)
I have been trying to make some font aliases and I have noticed that XListFonts will return aliases for fonts that do not exist. Is this a bug? Not particularly. Shouldn't the xserver verify the existence of the actual font before returning the name from XListFonts? The server doesn't verify the existence of font files for normal font names before returning them in XListFonts. And even if it did, there's no guarantee that they would still exist when you got around to opening them.