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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                 XSetFontPath(3x11)



NAME
     XSetFontPath, XGetFontPath, XFreeFontPath - set, get, or
     free the font search path

SYNTAX
     cc [ flag... ] file... -lX11 [ library... ]
     int XSetFontPath(Display *display, char **directories, int
     ndirs);

     char **XGetFontPath(Display *display, int *npaths_return);

     int XFreeFontPath(char **list);

ARGUMENTS
     directories
               Specifies the directory path used to look for a
               font.  Setting the path to the empty list restores
               the default path defined for the X server.

     display   Specifies the connection to the X server.

     list      Specifies the array of strings you want to free.

     ndirs     Specifies the number of directories in the path.

     npaths_return
               Returns the number of strings in the font path
               array.

DESCRIPTION
     The XSetFontPath function defines the directory search path
     for font lookup.  There is only one search path per X
     server, not one per client.  The encoding and interpretation
     of the strings are implementation-dependent, but typically
     they specify directories or font servers to be searched in
     the order listed.  An X server is permitted to cache font
     information internally; for example, it might cache an
     entire font from a file and not check on subsequent opens of
     that font to see if the underlying font file has changed.
     However, when the font path is changed, the X server is
     guaranteed to flush all cached information about fonts for
     which there currently are no explicit resource IDs allo-
     cated.  The meaning of an error from this request is
     implementation-dependent.

     XSetFontPath can generate a BadValue error.

     The XGetFontPath function allocates and returns an array of
     strings containing the search path.  The contents of these
     strings are implementation-dependent and are not intended to
     be interpreted by client applications.  When it is no longer
     needed, the data in the font path should be freed by using



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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                 XSetFontPath(3x11)



     XFreeFontPath.

     The XFreeFontPath function frees the data allocated by XGet-
     FontPath.

DIAGNOSTICS
     BadValue  Some numeric value falls outside the range of
               values accepted by the request.  Unless a specific
               range is specified for an argument, the full range
               defined by the argument's type is accepted.  Any
               argument defined as a set of alternatives can gen-
               erate this error.

SEE ALSO
     XListFont(3x11), XLoadFonts(3x11)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/library/libx11          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | See XInitThreads(3X11)      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
























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