Re: Why are so many people using font servers?
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 03:31:03PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> 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...).
A quick test makes me think that it does, though it doesn't lock quite
so badly (the mouse moves freely, but nothing responds). It only happens
with certain fonts, I think mainly with attempting to display complex
things like some of the multibyte Asian fonts included with XFree86. I
haven't tried on this machine with a font server running, though.
--
Michael Heironimus
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