On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:28:09PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > I used to use a font server on a purely local system, and it wasn't > because I needed TrueType support. It was because XFree86 3.x would > sometimes block while scaling fonts. It was pretty annoying to have the > X server completely hang for a few seconds just because I picked the > wrong font from a list. Using a font server instead was the solution, > xfs would scale the fonts instead. > > I don't know if 4.x still has that problem, I certainly hope it's been > fixed by now. But even if it has it's quite possible that some people > still use it because that's what they did before. Ah, another good point. Have you tried without the font server to see if this still happens? I can't say I've ever noticed it with XFree86 4 (though I didn't see it with 3, either...). -- 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: ASLET un-Australian airframe overthorw Kennedy SCUD missile
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