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Re: xfstt superfluous?



On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 03:21:37PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Rob Weir said on Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 08:30:20PM +1000:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 06:39:30PM -0800, David Wright wrote:
> > > In an attempt to fix ugly fonts in gtk1.2 apps, I just added 
> > > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to the xfs configuration file 
> > > /etc/X11/fs/config, and it worked! Does this mean that xfs can serve 
> > > both PS and TT, making xfstt completely unnecessary?
> > 
> > Well, yeah.  Even more useful, though, is that X itself can use TT
> > fonts, so a font server is completely unneccessary unless you're
> > sharing to multple systems :)
> 
> Is this actually true?  

Yes, absolutely.

> There was a while where it was said to be a good idea
> to run a local font server because the font rendering step could block the X
> server, and prevent it from accepting any input.  If the font server blocked,
> the only bad thing that would happen was that new font requests wouldn't show
> up, but you could still type/move windows/etc.

I suppose this is possible, and the theory sounds plausible.  I've no
idea if it produces real-life gains, though.  Perhaps you could
benchmark it, yourself?

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