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From: jwinner@oracle.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How should XListFonts interact with font aliases.
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.012526.29153@oracle.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 01:25:26 GMT
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Hi,

I have been trying to make some font aliases and I have noticed that 
XListFonts will return aliases for fonts that do not exist. Is this a bug?
Shouldn't the xserver verify the existence of the actual font before 
returning the name from XListFonts?

Thanks
Jeff