init observations

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:15 PM -0600 Mike Chambers 
<mike at miketc.com> wrote:

> Not a developer or programmer, but what about those systems that use
> x/fonts from a server and not on the workstation?  How would X start
> without networking capabilities?

What does it currently do if your font server is unreachable? Does it wait, 
or fall back to local fonts until it can reach the server? Or just fall 
over?