xfs problem on Ubuntu/Intrepid

[Alan Coopersmith]

Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> Can anybody explain this behaviour, and tell me what is the use of xfs now?

The use of xfs is same as it's always been - to allow sites with multiple
computers/xterms to install fonts on one and share them out to the others.

Some distros additionally used xfs on single-machine setups for a side-effect
it has, moving font loading into effectively a separate thread, so that loading
large CJK fonts doesn't hang the main X server thread for a couple seconds, but
that usage is less common now that computers are fast enough to load a 2 meg
font in a less noticable time and most modern applications have moved to the
client-side font system of Render/Xft, so never load those via the xserver
anyway.

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