Re: checking that xfs is working
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
>
> > in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs. On most stand-alone
> > machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell.
>
> The nice people on #gimp told me that xfs makes things more responsive
> because the XServer does not block while it is rendering fonts. Ie xfs
> does that 'in parallel' with the X Server, so only the app that is using
> the font slows down.
>
Perhaps using xfs should be made the default then.
It should be just as simple to have either be used as long as all
font packages register themselves with both /etc/X11/XF86Config and
/etc/X11/xfs/config.
Behan
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