[comp.windows.x] How should XListFonts interact with font aliases.

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.