XSetFontPath

Syntax

XSetFontPath(display, directories, ndirs)
      Display *display;
      char **directories;
      int ndirs;

Arguments

display Specifies the connection to the X server.
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.
ndirs Specifies the number of directories in the path.

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 is 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 allocated. The meaning of an error from this request is implementation dependent.

XSetFontPath() can generate a BadValue error.

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 generate this error.

See also

XGetFontPath(), XFreeFontPath(), XListFonts(), XLoadFont(), "Setting and Retrieving the Font Search Path".
Christophe Tronche, ch@tronche.com