libfs ☆

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Description:
X.Org: X Font Service client library

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: x11 font xorg library protocol

Install: brew install libfs

About:
Libfs is a client-side library that implements the X Font Service protocol, enabling applications to communicate with font servers. It provides the necessary interface for X Window System clients to access and utilize fonts served over the network. This library is a core component for rendering text in legacy X11 environments.

Key Features:

Implements the client side of the X Font Service (XFS) protocol
Provides a standard API for X11 applications to access remote fonts
Essential component of the legacy X Window System architecture
Optimized for integration within the X11 software stack

Use Cases:

Enabling X11 applications to render text using fonts from a central network server
Building and maintaining legacy X Window System environments
Facilitating font management in multi-user UNIX-like systems

Alternatives:

fontconfig – Modern font configuration and discovery library that supersedes the core X Font Service protocol for most contemporary applications.
Xft – Client-side font rendering library that works with FontConfig and FreeType, offering anti-aliased text which the core XFS protocol lacks.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2024 2:23pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	b3dea1ec