local and remote text fonts

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Bert Wesarg wrote (2007-06-29 10:05):
>A better solution to this could maybe something like this:
>
>check after connecting to the x server if nedit and the x server running
>on the same machine, iff use the current behavior else use the text font
>settings from the x server resourcedb (and probably ask the user for this).
>
>there is one technical issue which I came up with this:
>
>How to check if nedit and the x server are running on the same machine? My
>current plan is to check the ip address of the X server with the one nedit
>is running on. But this isn't canonical, think of an ssh tunnel.

I don't think this should be done, ever. Network transparancy is one
of X11's most sexy features, not to be given up lightly.

Yes, I know that this is a problem regarding fonts.


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