X Core Font

X Core Font is a #202205051728 system that was traditionally used in #202205051624. One could add the path to installed fonts by modify the configuration file: 

Section "FontPath"
  Files "path/to/installed/fonts/
EndSection

For 202205051735#, two commands could be used to generate usable font in X11. mkfontscale will create a font.scale file for outline fonts. mkfontdir will combine the generated font.scale to font.dir where X11 can detect them.

There are several shortcomings of using X Core Font. One of them is that it is not easy to integrate the screen display and printed output. Second, since it is a server based implementation, local applications aren’t able to access the fonts directly. There is limited support for kerning (adjustment of spaces between characters) and other advance typographic features in using X Core Font, plus it doesn’t support font smoothing (convert 202205051735# to 202205051731#).

Modern 202204081225 distribution has replaced X Core Font with 202205052008#.

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  • Xorg

    Xorg stores the 202205051943# in either /usr/share/fonts or /usr/share/X11/fonts.

  • Xft Font System

    Xft Font System aims to replace #202205051943. It is client-based where local applications can directly access 202205051728 installed in the computer. It also supports font smoothing and other advance typographic features which improve the font rendering overall. You can tweak its configuration in the file /etc/fonts/local.conf. Use fc-cache after making changes on the configuration file.

  • XFree86

    XFree86 stores the 202205051943# in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts Additionally, before version 4.x, it does not support TrueType#.

  • X Window System

    X Window System (X11) is a graphical user interface (GUI) for #202204081225. It can display windows, fonts#, games or any graphical components. Its configuration files could be seen at /etc/ or /etc/X11/. It has several implementations as shown below:

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