Bitmapped fonts describe each glyph as a pattern of pixels in a particular size, and
cannot be smoothly scaled to other sizes. Scalable fonts describe each glyph as a pattern
of lines and arcs (curves) that can be scaled to any desired size and rendered into
a bitmap.
Instead of specifying the font path in the server configuration file, you can specify it
on the X server command line using the -fp option:
$ X -fp tcp/purple:7100
To view the font path on a running server, use the xset command with the -q (query)
option:
$ xset -q
...(Output snipped)...
Font Path:
/home/chris/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,
unix/:7100,/home/chris/.gnome2/share/fonts,
/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
...(Output snipped)...
To remove an entry from the font path, use the -fp argument:
$ xset -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/
To add an entry, use +fp (add at the front of the font path??”search first) or fp+ (add
at the end of the font path??”search last). Some examples are as follows:
$ xset +fp unix/:7100
$ xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/localfonts/
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To ignore the current font path and set a new value, use the fp= argument (note the
space after fp= and the comma between elements):
$ xset fp= unix/:7100,/usr/share/X11/fonts/TT/
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