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? -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: enforcers USDOJ military VX nerve gas PGP Audiotel
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