[SLUG] fontconfig q

["Christopher Vance" <cjsvance@xxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to be lacking font-fu.

I have a bunch of thin linux clients running X.  The clients run
almost everything locally.  However they are diskless and get most of
their fonts off a separate machine running the X font server.

Prior to fontconfig, I think I understood how things worked.

I'm trying to get a selfcompiled copy of vlc running on the thin
clients, and I'm trying to work out whether fontconfig needs to run on
the xfs server, on the X server (= xfs client), or both.  Getting
anything running on the thin client is painful enough I'd prefer to
skip there if possible, but vlc bitches about fonts not being
configured.

fc-list on the xfs server shows me lotsa stuff.

fc-list on the xfs client shows me nothing (successfully), but other
programs run fine.

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Christopher