> What I'd like to know is how you tell the X server to connect
> to the font server via a UNIX domain socket. And does anyone
> know if this is likely to be faster than a local TCP connection?
> unix/:-1 is the font server for a UNIX socket, it is quicker than a
localhost connection but not my major amounts, but also if you use your
font server for more than one machine, you need the TCP one ..
Dave.
> Later,
> Kenn
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